Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First reactions were ebullient. "Any news concerning a bombing halt is a relief," said Banker Nguyen Xuan Oanh. "The conclusion is that the war will end." A farmer uprooted from his Mekong Delta paddies planned to "go to my rice again." Adding to the euphoria, the government pushed the 10 p.m. curfew up to 11 p.m. "We now talk," said a Saigon journalist, "of spending our next Tet in peace...
...would never work. Last week, 21 months and many millions later, the skeptics were proved right. Boeing is now scrapping its movable wing. To take its place, the company has decided on a stationary swept-back configuration that bears more than a passing resemblance to Lockheed's original "delta" wing design...
Despite their basic similarity, Boeing's new SST design differs in some ways from the one advanced by Lockheed. Boeing's delta wing will not be swept back quite so dramatically as that of the Lockheed model, a fact that should make the B-2707 slightly more efficient at subsonic speeds, slightly less so at its maximum cruise speed of 1,800 m.p.h. And while Lockheed planned to build its plane without a horizontal tail, the Boeing version will have a relatively conventional tail configuration...
...That will still be a sufficient payload to make the plane profitable, however, and will enable the craft to achieve the designed range. The new version, employing the familiar fixed-wing concept, should also take less time to build. That is particularly important, since the slower (1,550 m.p.h.), delta-wing Anglo-French Concorde, a rival SST entry, is scheduled to make its first test flight this fall and start commercial service in mid-1971, five years earlier than the B-2707. Boeing's best hope at this stage is that if no more serious kinks develop...
...sawed-off Mustang and have a semi-fastback roof-line that will make it sportier than the Volkswagen, Japan's Toyota, and other leading low-priced imports. The car is currently being test-run at the company's proving ground in suburban Dearborn. Code-named "the Delta," it is considerably longer (176 in. to 159 in.) than the Volkswagen, but does not stand quite as high (53 in. to 59 in,). It will get about 22 miles to a gallon of gasoline. Ford hopes to keep the cost under $2,000 by incorporating into its design as many...