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More Serious Problem. The plane has been plagued by stormy arguments between its builders, British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud-Aviation. The partners have been forced to plan ma jor structural changes and to push back the Concorde's delivery dates from 1970 to 1971, cutting its lead time over the planned U.S. supersonic craft. The Concorde will also cost more than originally intended: buyers will not pay $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 but closer to $10,000,000. Such airlines as Alitalia, El Al and Air-India have ordered the U.S. supersonic plane instead...
Moreover, they are straining hard to add 12% more power to the Concorde's Bristol Siddeley engines and to enlarge its Sud-Aviation wings so that the plane can fly as far as New York-Frankfurt. Even with those hurry-up changes, it would not be able to reach Rome or to speed up to Mach 3. Reason: its designers are committed to building it out of aluminum, which warps and melts at the higher speed, instead of waiting to master the techniques of working with tougher titanium, used...
...defense spending at $3.7 billion, or 5.1% of its G.N.P. Italy will spend $1.3 billion, West Germany $4.7 billion; even neutralist Sweden has hiked its 1963 defense budget to $675 million. Thousands of European firms, from such giants as Italy's Fiat and France's Sud Aviation to makers of uniforms and rifles, are getting interested in defense work...
...after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded Simca in 1934 and ruled it with an iron hand until Chrysler bought control of it this year. The former president of state-owned Sud Aviation, Héreil became a national hero for bringing out the successful Caravelle, but resigned last year after the government sharply trimmed his authority to call the shots in the joint Anglo-French effort to build a supersonic jetliner...
...involved. The sums are so big that, in the words of Northrop Corp.'s Chairman Tom Jones, "there has to be a purpose other than free enterprise." Three months ago, Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby visited the plants of the Anglo-French consortium-British Aircraft Corp. and Sud-Aviation-and was shocked to see how far along the British and French were in building their needle-nosed Concorde jetliner, which will fly at Mach 2.2 (or 2.2 times the speed of sound). The market for a supersonic transport (or SST, as it is widely known) will at first...