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To: LindyBill who wrote (48470)	10/1/2002 9:52:28 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

My original point: Boeing could do a triple-sonic wide body if they wanted to. All they got to do is figure out how to build it, finance it and sell it. The SST didn't get in trouble from environmentalists, it got in trouble because the government was expected to fund its development. Mercifully, that time around, the plug got pulled before it could join the Concorde in perpetual subsidy land. The '70s Boeing SST project was a crock of political pork. Boeing's original proposal, that beat out Lockheed, was for a swing wing FB111/B1 type plane. Lockheed had a Concorde-style delta proposal. Boeing had no experience in supersonic aircraft, Lockheed had done the SR-71. A year or so after Boeing got the contract, they figured out their swing-wing design was impractical and switched to something like the Lockheed design. It was a mercy killing when that program died. But go ahead, blame it all on "environmental extremists", as opposed to James Watt's "real Americans". Always good to keep that axe well ground.