Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard physicist named William Shurcliff organized a few friends into the Citizens' League Against the Sonic Boom. The group's members--all nine of them--had the unlikely goal of stopping the development and production of the most mammoth project in commercial aviation history, the multi-billion dollar supersonic transport...
...company had been pinning its hopes for re-entry into the commercial airframe business, a field that it left (except for business jets) in 1962, when it rolled out the last of 170 turboprop Electras. The No. 1 target was the Government-supported program to build a U.S. supersonic transport. When its SST hopes crashed last...
...runways too short for smaller, four-engine airliners, is the result of the plane's major technological advance: Lockheed will use three 33,000-lb.-thrust turbofan engines (two mounted under the wings and one in the tail) like the ones slated for its huge C-5A military transport...
...said Hughes, "heard of plans to enlarge Las Vegas' McCarran Field." Instead, Hughes suggested, it might be a good idea to build a new airport far ther from town. Then Las Vegas might "just barely turn out" to be the southwestern center for the U.S.'s supersonic transport planes of the 1970s...
Gowon himself knew better. Desperately he recalled 600 troops from Bonny, a federal foothold in Biafra. From the Northern capital of Kaduna, another 500 came racing in on railroad cars. From Lagos itself, more troops moved out to meet the invading Biafrans. For transport they commandeered everything available; groundnut wagons rolled toward the front behind big red-and-silver municipal passenger buses. But hard as the federal troops hit back, the rebels continued to hold Ore. And since the rebel forces of Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu are largely Ibo tribesmen, Nigerians behind the front in Lagos retaliated...