Materials for the mach 3 supersonic transport

Air Force, axla the FAA.supersonic transport at this time b e ~a ~r c it seems t o me t h a t everytime I pick-up a t e z h i c a l magazine they are having a special issue devoted t o t h i s airplane.&en slach p?ablicatior;,s a t Time, Newsweek, t h e Washington Post, and t h e New York Times have %&%?ly carried lengthy a r t i c l e s abmt t h i s airplan,?.This, of C S O ~S S , mema t h a t what I a m about t o say I s hardly novel.grs&er detail t o what may have beersaid before.It i s a l i t t l e ak-bcrdtto diswss t h e Mach 3 Ho~?vcr,I hope t o EL? some new ideas o r perhaps some % It may be well to dwell f o r a mimte OE the reasons why t h i s airplane has received so much publlcity.The first itam is t h a t t h e &ch 3 S.xp?r~mic Warsport represents a major afivaxe i n a i r c r a f t technology.t r i p l e the speed of' o' ctr p s e s e ~t highly developed commercial transports.This i s , I believe, an excitizg pessibflity to contemplate.The second