supersonic transport

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To make matters worse, the federal government withdrew support for Boeing’s supersonic transport.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2022

That year, the supersonic transport Concorde took its maiden flight from Toulouse, France, introducing the notion that mere mortals — deep-pocketed mortals — could also soon travel somewhere faster than the speed of sound.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2019

In the 1970s, Garwin testified against the supersonic transport, the US answer to the British–French Concorde — helping to cement its demise at the hands of Congress.

From Nature • Feb. 14, 2017

When high-flying supersonic transport aircraft were proposed in the late 1960s, the labs used climate models to analyze how their exhaust gases might affect the stratosphere.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2016

Congress’s rejection of funds to develop a supersonic transport in 1971, the world’s continued rejection of an efficiently designed typewriter keyboard, and Britain’s long reluctance to adopt electric lighting.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond