1. Concorde success or failure
... as an important step in demonstrating the technical competence required of a major power," as the Central Intelligence Agency argued in 1966 (p. 69). The Concorde prompted American commercial SST work. When Pan American Airlines signed options for six Concordes in 1963, President John F. Kennedy ordered an aggressive SST program under Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) auspices, saying that he wanted to "beat that ... ...
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