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November 26, 2003
"NIH syndrome"
Are you kidding? We did the SR-71 along
with the Blackbird!
Boeing was ready to
go on an SST but, the powers that be
voted in favor of a "bus" instead, thinking
it more important (and far more of a
corporate money maker in the long run)
to transport "more" at less speed, then
"few" at high speed, in view of airline
de-regulation over here and the terrific
growth in traffic they felt this would
produce (which it sure enough did).
Also, of course, the SST could never be
used over the states considering sonic
booms. The "bus" would have no such
problem and could also be used internationally as well.
I remember being sorely disappointed at
this news because the Russians were
going ahead on their design and I felt
Boeing was going to miss out on high
speed international travel.
Then came OPEC and the price of oil went through the roof as it's price
was
"fair traded" (artificially set). Were it
not for this, Concord tech. would have
established the International travel
standard as technology in this respect
progressed to larger supersonic airliners
carrying more people.
I'll see if I can salvage the picture from
yesterday's paper, Alan.
The Burning Shore is an excellent read,
BTW!! :)
Cap'n. Bob
'60 :{)
PilotRob@... 27021
Posted on November 26, 2003 09:54 PM
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