High-Speed Dreams : NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999

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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction; 1 Constructing the Supersonic Age; 2 Technological Rivalry and the Cold War; 3 Engineering the National Champion; 4 Of Noise, Jumbos, and SSTs; 5 Of Ozone, the Concorde, and SSTs; 6 The Airbus, the Orient Express, and the Renaissance of Speed; 7 Toward a Green SST; 8 Sic Transit HSCT; Conclusion; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y