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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, October VI373 Abe Martin Firms, NASA Spending Money " SST Alive and Well in Research Projects By Joel N. Shurkin Knight Newspapers shot down Boeing's supersonic project. The American supersonic transport (SST), far from being a dead issue, is alive and well in the hearts of aviation engineers and in the federal budget. Magaglne Quotes Spending The respeczd industry magazine Aviation Week Space has immediate plans to build such an aircraft but at least three of the major airplane makers have drawings and computer projections of an SST. No one . Some (oiks weigh ther words but most of us est guess em off. Halt Temporary Perus mines (AP, and energy minister termed the governments decision to halt signature of oil contracts for exploration and development of oil in the Amazon area a temporary measure." - All LIMA However, he was not able to give a specific date for new contracts. Most of the mcney is coming from the National Aeronautics-anAdministration Space (NASA), which has funded a program called the Advanced Supersonic Technology (AST) program. It has had a budget of $11.7 million for the last two fiscal years. Trans World Airlines have mostly for economic reasons both decided against buymg the plane The other is the Russian TU144, which will fly next year for Aeroflot, the Soviet airline. a Technology quotes official as say.ng his firm is spending eight times its AST share out own for of its pocket McDonnell-Douglas- s Museum Gets not knewn how much the aircraft makers have spent of their own funds money since Congress environmental impelled by concerns p With the cancellation of the Botrng SST, there is no American entry. Boeings mock-uwas sold to a museum in Flor- - research. Lockheed has also drawn up ejections of an SST and Boeing has kept its capability intact. p Airway Buying All three firms say they are only preparing their selves for if it happens the time when the government decides to build a serond generation U.S. Jetliners Part of NAsAs classic charter is to do research on various speeds, including the supersonic regime, the offi- believe Industry sources that some of that environmental pressure will ease up and the American airframe industry which has dominated commercal aviation for decades, will join in the SST race by the 1980s to build second generation aircraft. Concorde The money is being spent on research into such matters as with the for instance, have indicated the some boom, caused when airplanes zoom through the sound bamer, is far less of a hazard or annoyance than many critics anticipated. A spokesman said Iraqi placed a $60 million order for e three 707s and two 737 twin jets. Most of the airlines have the slued from away Concordes because they cost almost $30 million each and long-rang- f Where the Customer is STILL King! NEW HOURS 9 TO 9 OAYSFICIAl Fresh cial said. SEATTLE (AP) Iraqi t Airways will purchase its five Amencan-bml- t jetliners from the Boeing Co., the Seattle-basefirm said. fu-s- there are two SSTs planned for the airlines. One is the Bntish-FrencConcorde. It has bet purchased by the government-owne- d airlines of those two countries, and Iran Air. Pan American World Airways and Presently At that time Congress, acting under pressure from environmental groups, defeated an administration program to underwrite Boeing prototypes. Experiments - SST. h It is Mock-u- involve questionable economics. A NASA official emphasized that uie AST program is not designed to build an aircraft. 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