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Article #8397Re: SST landing rights in US
From: Bob Gray
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 17:37
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 17:37
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In article <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> Dale.Amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes: >Actually what stopped the SST in the US were the enviro-nuts who >probably thought the sonic booms would vibrate the tail feathers off >the ducks. Or maybe they felt that if man were meant to fly at MACH god >would have given him a higher methane storage capacity... :-) and :-( One of the main complaints apart from the noise, was that it was going to make holes in the Ozone layer above the Atlantic. There was also some story at the same time about how rocket launches were making holes in the Ozone layer which took days to close up. Does anyone know if there were ever any follow-up studies of this? Bob.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!bob From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: SST landing rights in US Message-ID: <1298@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 25 Jan 89 17:37:16 GMT References: <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> Reply-To: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project Lines: 16