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THE OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT
Pages 85-90

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From page 85...
... transport aircraft leadership during the next decade and the importance of maintaining our nation's preeminent position in the world's commercial jet transport market. Before doing this I intend to generalize a bit on the U.S.
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From page 86...
... The energy situation is a classic example of knee-jerk responses to a serious problem and government confusion at worst. As the cost of OPEC oil rose, the government continued to keep domestic oil prices far below world levels, allowed U.S.
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From page 87...
... maintained a positive trade balance and aerospace led the list among manufactured products. In l979 the positive balance of trade for aerospace products exceeded $l0 billion, with commercial jet transports accounting for most of that.
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From page 88...
... The MITI report stresses the crucial role of technological development and recommends that the ratio of technology spending to gross national product be increased from the present l.7 percent to 3 percent by l990. Total R&D support by the U.S.
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From page 89...
... However, there are many other examples, such as winglets currently flying on test aircraft, the development of sophisticated area rule techniques to optimize drag, and active control systems that will eventually reduce weight and drag both by modifying structural loads and by reducing empennage size. In some of these cases our proud Boeing engineers think they did a number of these things by themselves, but the NASA work helped show us the way.
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From page 90...
... What seems obvious to me is that we must get our act together in the areas of foreign trade, research and development, and government-industry cooperation. At present, the United States is the leader in commercial jet transport development, but there are plenty of warning signs showing up.
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  • technological development
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  • airbus industry
  • aeronautical research

  • transport market
  • defense budget
  • foreign commercial
  • efficiency improvement
  • labor union

  • nasa budget
  • effort required
  • transports accounting
  • eventually reduce
  • pollution controls

  • political environment
  • government activity
  • laast achieved
  • industrial programs
  • positive trade

  • dominant position
  • improved fuel
  • cumulative effect
  • regard foreign
  • military programs


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