High-speed dreams : NASA and the technopolitics of supersonic transportation, 1945-1999
"This insightful history focuses on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Erik M. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, government contractors, private investors, and environmentalists. He documents post-World War II efforts at the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and the Defense Department to generate supersonic flight technologies, the attempts to commercialize these technologies by Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, environmental campaigns against SST technology in the 1970s, and subsequent attempts to revitalize supersonic technology at the end of the century." "High-Speed Dreams is a sophisticated study of politics, economics, nationalism, and the global pursuit of progress. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2005
History
xvii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780801880674, 9780801890819, 080188067X, 0801890810
56111657
Constructing the supersonic age
Technological rivalry and the Cold War
Engineering the national champion
Of noise, jumbos, and SSTs
Of ozone, the Concorde, and SSTs
The Airbus, the Orient Express, and the renaissance of speed
Towards a green SST
Sic transit HSCT