Sentences with phrase «supersonic transports»

Crutzen (1970) calculated that even small amounts of nitrates could be important as catalysts; this was independently and explicitly linked to supersonic transports and ozone damage by Johnston (1971).

Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»

Had it not existed, hundreds of supersonic transports might have flown for years before the public noticed the increase in skin cancer.

For every dollar in risk capital contributed by private companies to manufacture the supersonic transport plane (SST), the government, according to author Leonard Baker, contributed $ 6.50.

In the testimony that helped to defeat government support of the supersonic transport plane (SST) in the Senate was a sophisticated item of scientific knowledge.

The recent debate over the supersonic transport plane is an illustration of my point.

The list can grow long very rapidly — atomic energy generating plants, supersonic transport planes (SST), jet aircraft, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, television, communication satellites, space vehicles that take men to the moon and cameras to Mars and beyond, hundreds of synthetic fabrics, the aerosol can, direct long - distance dialing, heart transplants, advanced computers, and so on and on.

Sonic Boom «Last year Congress appropriated $ 11 million for the Federal Aviation Agency to begin the development of a prototype supersonic transport, with technical support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In particular, he had become increasingly frustrated over the development of a supersonic transport, because he thought the Defense Department had locked the FAA out of the administration's decisionmaking for the program.

The difference between Apollo's success and the supersonic transport's failure lies in the single word «commercial.»

Less well known is Kennedy's commencement address to the U.S. Air Force Academy in June 1963, in which he committed us to the development «of a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country of the world.»

In the 1970s, when Congress was debating the safety of the proposed supersonic transport program, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie had just heard conflicting scientific testimony.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, in his spare time, Musk draws up plans for revolutionary transport systems, such as the Hyperloop and VTOL supersonic jet aircraft known as the Musk electric jet.

In the past, some technologies sponsored by the US government, from computers to transport aircraft, have become wildly successful, while others, including synthetic fuels and supersonic aircraft, have been disasters.

It can transport people in small capsules at near supersonic speeds, thanks to low air pressure inside the tubes.