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The United States Supersonic Transport A Progress Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

John M. Swihart
John M. Swihart*
Affiliation:
SST Product Development Technology, The Boeing Company, Seattle
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Extract

On 31st December 1966, General McKee of the Federal Aviation Administration announced that The Boeing Company and the General Electric Company had been selected to develop the prototype airframe and engines for the United States supersonic transport. The announcement ended a long, intense competition and was the culmination of the nine years of effort on the part of Boeing, where since January 1958 there has been an identified, separate project devoted to the SST.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 691 , July 1968 , pp. 567 - 573
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1968 

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Footnotes

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Editor’s Note:—The paper was written before the recent announcement that the US SST prototype would be delayed for approximately one year. Development work is continuing at Boeing to permit the incorporation of the concepts which are expected to improve prototype performance.

References

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