"Ron" wrote in message
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rom: "NEMO ME IMPUNE"
Date: 11/2/2003 10:44 AM Mountain Standard Time
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Have you ever been able to make a SST?
NOPE

Of course we could have. We had the XB-70 capable of Mach 3 40 years
ago,
which in some ways could be considered an SST.

The SST did not happen because of not being able to, there was a lot of
public
opposition for environmental reasons.

Not exactly true, the SST was a liability nightmare for Boeing. Much the
same realization has come to AI, as they produce airliners with modern
probability of catastrophic event numbers. The tire failure issue with the
SST is four and a half orders of magnitude below minimums for a common
carrier.