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Common terms and phrasesadministration aerodynamic aerospace agency agency's Air Force Airbus airframe airlines airplane American SST anti-SST argued Aviation believed Boeing Boeing SST Boeing's bomber budget campaign Clipped Wings combustor commercial committee companies concept Concorde Concorde's configuration cost delta wing economic efficiency effort emissions engine engine's environmental evaluation flight fuel funding goal Halaby High Speed History Office Horwitch HSCT HSCT's HSR's hypersonic Ibid impact interview with author John Swihart Keyworth laminar flow Langley Research Center Lockheed Mach manufacturers materials McDonnell-Douglas McNamara ment million NACA NACA's Najeeb Halaby NASA NASA's National Nixon noise nozzle ozone percent Phase political Pratt President problem produce proposed propulsion reduce research program result SCAT Science Senate sonic boom Space SST development SST program SST's stratospheric subsonic subsonic jets substantial Supersonic Cruise Supersonic Transport swing-wing takeoff tion turbine turbofan turbojet vehicle weight References to this bookFrom Google ScholarWhat is the relationship between technology and social values?Aleksandra Mozdzanowska References from web pagesHigh-speed dreams; NASA and the technopolitics of supersonic High-speed dreams; NASA and the technopolitics of supersonic ... Chicago Journals - Isis Tmecca : High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of ... CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE Index to Volume 47 (2006) - Technology and Culture 47:4 ND020-Newsletter 05-2005 Astronomy サイレント超音速飛行実現のための 実験・計算融合研究 宇宙航空研究開発機構契約報告 Bibliographic information |