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...supersonic transport, which, after a leisurely subsonic flight from Prague, touched down with its 26 tires threadbare from many high-speed landings. Though the Russian SST made its first test flight more than two years ago, it had not been previously exhibited for Westerners. It quickly became the star of the Paris show...
...industry because many rivals believe that it has often used abrasive competitive tactics. It has a reputation for "buying in" on Government projects, bidding unrealistically low on the assumption that once the contract was landed, the costs could be renegotiated upward. On Lockheed's C-5A military transport alone, the Government has laid out an extra $1.3 billion to pay for "cost overruns." Still, Lockheed last year managed to lose money on the C-5A and three other major military contracts...
...Nixon. They are particularly shocked by several portents, including the fact that imported cars account for 33% of all new-auto sales in California and the expectation that Japan will turn out more steel than the U.S. in 1974. They are upset by the demise of the U.S. supersonic transport (aircraft exports added $2.5 billion to the plus side of the nation's balance of payments last year) and by the stiffening trade barriers in the Common Market (American farm exports, largely to the Market, added $7.2 billion to the balance of payments last year). Said Treasury Secretary John...
...nation's environmentalist lobby, refreshed by its success, had turned to other concerns. So had the Boeing Company. After the Senate abruptly voted down further funds for development of the supersonic transport in March, Boeing laid off more than 5,000 workers, dispersed its crack team of SST designers and engineers, and closed down the Seattle factory where for four years it had been creating a supersonic prototype...
...experiment in relating the uses of the helicopter, as refined in Viet Nam, to the Army of the '70s and '80s. Should TRICAP prove out over the next three years, it will employ tanks for shock on the ground, Hueys and CH-47 Chinooks for troop transport, and either Cobra gunships, or the new Lockheed Cheyenne missile platforms for air support. The modernized division will be assigned as part of the U.S. commitment to NATO defensive units in Western Europe...