https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/54a5d791-e623-471f-8807-6e27ec0506bf Hosted by Bob Cosidine, "You and Me and the SST" is a publicity film made by the Boeing Company to promote the Supersonic Transport (SST) project, a rival to the British Concorde. The focus of the film is on having an American-made supersonic aircraft that will employ aerospace workers, and create other opportunities for up to 150,000 people nationally. This film was likely shown to Congress and other decision makers, since Boeing was receiving government subsidies for the SST Project and had to cancel the project once this money was cut. The film states that 500 SSTs would be sold by 1990, allowing the U.S. Government to recover the investment it would have made -- an argument that fell on deaf ears once the Concorde and rival Soviet aircraft flopped in the international market. The film also shows the construction of 747 aircraft, and various components for the SST including engines built by General Electric. The Boeing 2707 was the first American supersonic transport (SST) project. After winning a competition for a government-funded contract to build an American SST, Boeing began development at its facilities in Seattle, Washington. The design emerged as a very large aircraft with seating for 250 to 300 passengers and cruise speeds in the range of Mach 3. This made it much larger and significantly faster than competing designs like the Concorde, with more than twice the seating capacity. The SST was the topic of considerable concern within and outside the aviation industry. From the start the airline industry had noted that the economics of the design were questionable, concerns that were only partially addressed during development. Outside the field, the entire SST concept was the subject of considerable negative press, centered on the issue of sonic booms and effects on the ozone layer. A key design feature of the 2707 was its use of a swing wing planform. During development the required weight and size of this mechanism continued to grow, forcing the team to start over using a conventional delta wing. Rising costs and the lack of a clear market led to its cancellation in 1971 before two prototypes had been completed. The Concorde, and its Soviet counterpart Tupolev Tu-144, both launched with what amounted to a dull thud. Originally predicting sales of 150, the Concorde program built only 14 airframes for commercial service. Service entry was only secured through massive government intervention, at billions of dollars total economic loss. These few aircraft would go on to have a very long in-service flight and were ultimately commercially successful for its operators, until finally being removed from service in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks when Airbus decided to end servicing arrangements. The Tu-144 was even less successful, operating for only 55 passenger flights before being grounded for various reasons, and ended its commercial career ignobly by hauling cargo. With the ending of the 2707 project, the entire SST field in the US was moribund for some time. However, by the mid-1970s a number of minor advances, combined, appeared to offer greatly improved performance. Through the second half of the 1970s, NASA provided funding for the Advanced Supersonic Transport (AST) project at several companies, including McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Lockheed. Considerable wind tunnel testing of the various models was carried out at NASA's Langley Research Center. Though many designs have been studied since, it is unlikely SST aircraft will be economically feasible in the foreseeable future. The inherent lower lift-to-drag ratios at supersonic speeds mean that SSTs will have poorer fuel economy than subsonic designs. Even faster subsonic designs, like the Boeing Sonic Cruiser, have been met with little industry interest in an era of increasingly difficult economic pressures on the airlines. Nevertheless the SST race has had several lasting effects on the industry as a whole. The supercritical wing was originally developed as part of the SST efforts in the US, but is now widely used on most jet aircraft. In Europe, the cooperation that allowed the Concorde led to the formation of Airbus, Boeing's foremost competitor. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. 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