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From: mike@mfgfoc.uucp (Mike Thompson)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: SST landing rights in US
Message-ID: <592@mfgfoc.uucp>
Date: 23 Jan 89 06:03:35 GMT
References: <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: Focus Semiconductor Sys, Sunnyvale
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From article <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>, by Dale.Amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU:
> of 1970 was just not up to the job. When an SST is economically viable,
> they will be built. The Concorde is nice, but I wonder if it ever paid
> off it's full development cost?

In the early part of this decade, I seem to remember reading that
a new type of wing was being developed by NASA and some aerospace firm
which could lead to a supersonic aircraft which didn't create a
sonic boom (or at least much reduced in magnitude).  The wing was 
long, thin, and narrow like the one on the U2 and pivoted as one
piece where it was attached to the fusalage.  This meant one wing-
tip swung toward the nose and the other swung towards the tail in
a scissor like motion.  I think a small single
seat sub-sonic aircraft was built and flown for testing.  Does
anyone remember what happened to this research?  I assume it 
either died from lack of funding or the findings did not live up
to their claims.

Mike Thompson
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