Concorde Conspiracy

Auteur

Graham Simons is an aviation writer and historian. His titles include Mosquito: The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft and Valkyrie: The North American XB-70.

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This is an in-depth look at the political machinations involving the Concorde conspiracy, with inside information from CIA records and.JFK and LBJ Presidential libraries. The story of Concorde and the American Supersonic Transport (SST) project is one of spies, lies, arrogance, deceit, and presidential hatred.

Résumé
After their failure to be the first nation to develop a jet airliner for transatlantic flight or to send spacecraft into space, the US Government was adamant that they would beat other nations to the goal of supersonic flight and so development of the SST began.