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...Corp. and Boeing Aircraft Co. for the long-range, 1,800-m.p.h. model to be used in overseas flights. President Johnson is expected to make the final decision about Jan. 1. The FAA also ordered a quick investigation of whether either design could be adapted into a medium-size SST that would avoid the sonic boom that may well restrict the larger plane from flying over land routes. For that study, the FAA gave a $65,000 contract to North American Aviation...
Lift for the SST. The company has also revved up its relations with the Pentagon, which stunned Boeing by awarding the TFX (now F-lll) fighter to General Dynamics in 1962 and the giant C-5A cargo plane to Lockheed last year. Boeing's massive research and development program should help it to capture a bigger share of aerospace and defense work. Among the potential $1 billion-plus projects up for grabs: the AMSA (advanced manned strategic aircraft) bomber project...
...designs next January, Boeing's prospects got a lift last week. After ten U.S. and 20 foreign airlines responded to a secret Government survey of design preferences, the Wall Street Journal polled the lines on its own. "By a narrow margin," said the Journal, they favored the Boeing SST...
...striking, his horizons have been much widened by the success of the Boeing Co., the city's chief industry. Nowadays, as a simple matter of self-interest, he is usually impelled to consider Saudi Arabia's search for new aircraft, how the Russians are doing with their SST or the state of the Japanese economy...
...Government and industry experts, who are now weighing the Boeing and Lockheed proposals. With a decision deadline set for Jan. 1, 1967, the ultimate choice will be made by the President of the U.S. The winner will build the airplane that will represent the U.S. in the international SST rivalry. Until then, Boeing's SST-like Lockheed's which was displayed to the press last June-will be no more than a grounded mockup...