Morgans wrote:

It would make a new SST a viable project, if I'm right.

The only thing that would make an SST a viable project in the U.S. is if Boeing
were to build it. The fact that non-US firms were the only ones building SSTs was
the only thing that got the anti-sonic-boom stuff through Congress in the first
place. That era saw a tremendous amount of protectionist legislation, much of it
in the guise of "safety".

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.