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Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland  · 15 Jan 2021  · 342pp  · 72,927 words

blood pressure, to suffer from fatigue and to have difficulty in focusing their attention – they are even prone to excessive anger.6 In hindsight, the supersonic airliner Concorde was an engineering marvel that was incompatible with humans. It produced a deafening boom that prohibited it from overland travel, and the time zone

Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives

by Christopher Bartlett  · 11 Apr 2010  · 543pp  · 143,135 words

one of the safest aircraft to one of the most dangerous when disaster befell. [Air France Flight 4590] Concorde’s History The world’s first supersonic airliner, the Concorde 001, rolled onto the tarmac in 1967, but according to CNN it took two more years of testing and fine-tuning of the

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113, 143, 168 Stockholm syndrome 312 Strong, James 63 structural flap 231 suicide 89, 122, 123, 172, 173, 324 Sullenberger III, Captain Chesley B. 19 supersonic airliner 161 swamp 155 Swiss Cheese 59, 325 Swissair 111 158 Swissair Caravelle 282 Swissair Flight 306 282 Swissair Flight SR111 158 T TACAN. 116 tail

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900

by David Edgerton  · 7 Dec 2006  · 353pp  · 91,211 words

could not be sold; the AGRs were effectively given away free. A second great project of the 1960s derived from military precedents, the Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde, was also, according to cost-benefit analysis, a dreadful waste of money. The prototype flew in 1969, and commercial, if that is the right

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DDT was to disappear faster than the mosquitoes and other insects it was used to kill. Concorde looks like being the first and the last supersonic airliner. Manned hypersonic aeroplanes disappeared in the 1960s. At the end of the twentieth century, nuclear power, once the technology of the future, was set to

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

by Vaclav Smil  · 23 Sep 2019

, E. L., et al. 1992. Growth in cities. Journal of Political Economy 100:1126–1152. Glancey, J. 2016. Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner. London: Atlantic Books. Glazier, D. S. 2006. The 3/4-power law is not universal: Evolution of isometric, ontogenetic metabolic scaling in pelagic animals. BioScience

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

by Oliver Morton  · 26 Sep 2015  · 469pp  · 142,230 words

was being looked at by scientists, by military planners and by concerned environmentalists. In 1970 America decided not to go ahead with the development of supersonic airliners. It was a crucial moment in environmental history – the first time that, in part because of public concerns about the environment, a futuristic technology of

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chemist who, a couple of decades later, introduced the term ‘Anthropocene’ into science’s vocabulary – had discovered about NOx showed that a fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would reduce stratospheric ozone levels by 10–20 per cent worldwide. The idea that the ozone layer was fragile, and that human activity could significantly

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harm to the ozone layer by Paul Crutzen and Harold Johnston looked at just this problem, though they imagined the NOx coming from fleets of supersonic airliners. The airliners never materialized; the world’s concern shifted, rightly, to CFCs. But now CFC emissions have been slashed and their presence in the stratosphere

Frommer's Seattle 2010

by Karl Samson  · 10 Mar 2010  · 666pp  · 131,148 words

II Corsair fighter that was rescued from Lake Washington and restored to its original glory. Visitors also get to board a retired British Airways Concorde supersonic airliner. An exhibit on the U.S. space program features an Apollo command module. Of course, you’ll also see plenty of Boeing planes, including a

Invention: A Life

by James Dyson  · 6 Sep 2021  · 312pp  · 108,194 words

’t give them the marks their original minds may well deserve. I love the story of Concorde engineers, at the early design stage of the supersonic airliner, making paper planes and throwing them around in their drawing offices to test ideas for an ideal wing. Some of these models are in the

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

by Philip Coggan  · 6 Feb 2020  · 524pp  · 155,947 words

, in a belief that this would enable Europe to close the gap with the US; in part, this motivated the creation of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner, Concorde. Mergers were encouraged in the hope that large companies could benefit from economies of scale. 23 Alfred Muller-Armack coined the term “social market

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of government investment. For all the successes noted by Ms Mazzucato, there have been plenty of examples of governments backing “white elephant” projects; Concorde, the supersonic airliner, for example, or costly nuclear power stations. The private sector makes mistakes as well, of course. But once governments commit themselves to these projects, it

Concorde: The Thrilling Account of History’s Most Extraordinary Airliner

by Mike Bannister  · 29 Sep 2022  · 436pp  · 127,696 words

research and design studies into supersonic flight at the UK’s Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough had, by 1956, led to the formation of a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee. In the days when Britain still had a sizeable and largely independent aviation industry, the STAC comprised nine British airframe manufacturers, four engine

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departments and BOAC and BEA. The STAC’s first meeting, on 5th November 1956, resulted in hundreds of written submissions covering the feasibility of a supersonic transport aircraft. These dealt with multiple aspects of the challenge ahead, including materials, systems, engines and the economic and social ramifications, not the least of which

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when it was envisaged that such an aircraft would fly supersonically over land. Meantime, supersonic transport aircraft studies were under way in France, the USA and the Soviet Union. The French initially were set on developing a supersonic airliner based on their highly successful Sud Aviation Caravelle; this for use on European and African

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routes – a medium-range design France remained wedded to for some time. In the USA, Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed were all involved in SST, or supersonic transport, studies. Intense competition from the

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even that had by now been broken up. But if Concorde’s manufacturers thought they were about to be presented with an uncontested market for supersonic transport aircraft, they were in for a shock. In January 1974, as economic conditions globally worsened – triggered by a fourfold increase in the price of oil

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this was the way to go. But when the fuel crisis hit, they all reconsidered. The choice they faced was binary: do we buy this supersonic airliner that can carry 100 passengers but only as far as the width of the Atlantic? Or do we buy this big 747, which has just

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the most exclusive families in the world. Because in a few moments’ time, we’re going to take you on Concorde, the world’s only supersonic airliner. We’re going to take you to the edge of space, where the sky gets darker, where you can see the curvature of the Earth

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on us that Seattle was the geographical and spiritual home of Boeing. Half a century after the US plane-maker had bowed out of the supersonic transport game, Seattle would get a permanent reminder of what it had missed out on. To get Alpha Golf there we would need to fly her

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sense of ownership that people felt, remained strong. And not just amongst Brits, but people of all nationalities. For those who were familiar with the supersonic transport story, I saw something else in their eyes, as well: pride – the same pride people of a certain age have for the Apollo Moon programme

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. Up into that band of thin air, up, up, to where the blue met the inky blackness of space. Epilogue Concorde remains the only successful supersonic airliner ever built. She clocked up more supersonic flight hours than almost all the world’s air forces. She enabled you to travel with ease and

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for all British Airways Concorde aircraft. It alerted ATC, and other aircraft, to Concorde’s extra speed. SST An abbreviation for any type of commercial Supersonic Transport aircraft. Stall A conventional aircraft stalls because the nose comes up too far, the speed is too low and the airflow generating lift over the

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flight from Boscombe Down on 27th September 1964. The project was cancelled by the UK government on 6th April 1965. Tupolev Tu-144 A Soviet supersonic airliner designed by Tupolev. It first flew on 31st December 1968 and was fully retired in 1999. It operated a limited passenger service from 1975 to

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subsonic flying 119–20, 123, 125, 134, 143 Sud Aviation Caravelle 63–4 supersonic aircraft 63–4, 118, 122, 173–4 future of 412–13 Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee (STAC) 63 surge 82, 145, 174, 375 take-offs 110–11, 301–3, 375 rejected 37 weight at 303–6, 308 taxying 94

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

by Robert Gandt  · 1 Mar 1995  · 371pp  · 101,792 words

Am will be the first to get the SST. . . ” Someone said he had seen a mockup of the American SST. The tail of the proposed supersonic transport bore the Pan Am blue ball. On this, the morning of the first day of their new careers, a euphoria pervaded their chatter. It was

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had more international destinations than any other carrier. Pan Am jet freighters carried more cargo than any other airline. Now there was talk of SSTs—supersonic transports—and even commercial space travel. With just a touch of theatricality, Pan American was accepting reservations for its first commercial service to the moon. The

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expected to hear. “Congratulations, gentlemen,” he said. “You”—he paused for effect – “are going to be SST pilots.” The pilots glanced at each other, nodding. Supersonic transports? At Pan American? A young man in the first row spoke for them all. “Yes, sir, we know,” he said. “That’s why we’re

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the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times had come out against the allocation of any more development funds for the SST—America’s supersonic transport. In Washington a speech had been delivered by Senator William Proxmire, congressional budget bloodhound, demanding that SST development funds be shriveled from $280 million to

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! It was just like the 707 project. Hadn’t he been proved correct in his determination to commence all-jet service? Now it was the supersonic transport. To Juan Trippe the SST amounted to more than just another pointy-nosed airplane that flew faster than sound. This was the sound barrier. There

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,” where futuristic airplanes like the P-38 and the U-2 and the F-104 had been created, preliminary sketches were already rendered for a supersonic airliner. But Quesada’s proposal drowned in the muddy waters of the Defense Department and the Eisenhower cabinet. Then came young blood. The Kennedy administration replaced

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. Kennedy had never trusted Juan Trippe. He already knew about Trippe’s interest in the Concorde. A move by Pan Am to order a foreign supersonic transport would be taken by the rest of the world as an indication that the American aviation industry acted without any direction or policy guidance from

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Academy, Kennedy had announced a “new program, in partnership with private industry, to develop at the earliest possible date the prototype of a commercially successful supersonic transport.” Trippe liked the part about “in partnership with private industry.” The Primitives were beginning to get the message. For Trippe it amounted to an interim

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it? Would you buy it if I built it? Although both Trippe and Allen were still ardent believers in the SST, both realized that the supersonic transport was way behind schedule. Given the political storm swelling around it, the futuristic jet might never fly, at least during the few years Allen and

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were disenchanted with government in general. They were angry with government’s use of technology in making weapons and launching space vehicles—and constructing unwanted supersonic transports. The SST finally died at the hands of a mob. A coalition of groups as diverse as the Sierra Club, Zero Population Growth, Friends of

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, chiding them like a rebuke from Trippe’s grave. The absurdly tall letters and the globe-shaped logo still conjured the old man’s fantasies: Supersonic transports. . . lunar flight. . . Clipper ships sailing to the stars. . . And then one morning they looked up—and it was gone. The logo and the tall letters

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