Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1980 Page: 50
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American Metal Market
March 31, 1980More Research Urged
On New, Larger SST
WASHINGTON - An advanced su- ity." The large projected costs of a depersonic
transport (AST), a follow-on velopment program, the report said,
to the failed SST, could command points to the possible need for a
sales of about 400 aircraft, worth ab- domestic or international consortium
out $50-billion in 1979 dollars, in the to finance it
1990 to 2010 time period, if financing, Study of Financing
fuel and environmental problems can Eric H. Willis, head of science, inbe
overcome. formation, and transportation for the
That was the conclusion of the Con- technology assessment office, said
gressional Office of Technology another section of the report (due laAssessment,
in the first part of a re- ter in the spring) will deal with the
port requested by the House Science possibilities of establishing some sort
and Technology committee which of joint financing of the project
must decide whether to continue Willis said the aircraft makers and
-funding a generic research program engine manufacturers who were inaimed
at developing a new, larger su- volved in the study "tempered enthupersonic
aircraft. siasm with caution and "were mindful
The study recommended continuing of the large investment required and
the generic research program under the fuel and environmental uncertainthe
direction of the National Aero- ties." Letters reportedly have gone
nautics and Space Administration, out to the manufacturers soliciting
but at higher levels than the approxi-. their views on a cooperative venture
mately $10-million annually that has to develop the plane
been going into it for 10 years. This Uncertain Timetable
should be done to "clarify the tech- Willis predicted that the aircraft
nological uncertainties" and provide "eventually will be built, but I don't
the "option for future development" know when." He said the "economic
While a larger supersonic transport climate of the 80s...a period of very
could yield higher productivity, or considerable reevaluation of national
seat-miles generated by an aircraft priorities and very dramatic change"
per unit oftume, the report said this made it difficult to lay out a timet"does
not necessarily mean profitabil- able..
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Office of Technology Assessment. Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1980, text, June 10, 1980; Washington, D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9233/m1/53/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.