Jacobs, Lou - SST Plane of tomorrow (ebook)
AUTHOR'S PREFACE in 1967
If travel time between distant places seems short by today's standards, within a few years it -will be even shorter when America's super-sonic transport, the SST, flues three times faster than present-day jet planes. This unique aircraft will help bring many dreams to reality. At 30 miles per minute, it is inevitable that the peoples of the world will be linked more closely than they are now. It is fortunate that so much imagination, scientific progress, and industrial skill has been applied to a civilian plane to benefit everyone.
You have undoubtedly read about the SST program in current news-papers and magazines and have seen and heard about it on television. Details of building these amazing airliners are still being worked out. Men in government and business are still debating the ways and means of paying the billions of dollars they will cost. Many cities are busy with plans to expand their airports to accommodate the new generation of "jumbo jets;' as the SST, as well as several other planes, are called.
By the time you read this book new refinements will have been made in the design and engineering of the SST. Continuous testing is needed to solve the many technical problems involved in its building. However, all die basic facts and principles that have made the supersonic transport possible are included in the pages that follow. Men of vision realize that the SST is an investment in the future supersonic age of travel. This book is a preview of that age.
In the gathering and preparation of material, the author has been supported by the following agencies and companies: The Boeing Company, Lockheed-California Company, General Electric Company, British Aircraft Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Air-craft, North American Aviation, Inc., the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Aimes and Langley Research Centers, the Federal Aviation Agency, ITT Gilfillan., and General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division.
Studio City, California Lou Jacobs, Jr.
July, 1967
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