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The Anti-Concorde Project was founded in 1966 by Richard Wiggs (a school teacher) to oppose the development of supersonic passenger transport. Wiggs positioned the Concorde as a test case in the confrontation between the environment and technology. [1]
He co-founded the Citizens' League Against the Sonic Boom, and was a member of the advisory committee to the Anti-Concorde Project. [5] "Shurcliff, as much as anyone in the United States, deserves credit for making it politically impossible to fly SST's over populated areas." [6]
The 6 February 1934 crisis (also known as the Veterans' Riot [1]) was an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris, organized by multiple far-right leagues that culminated in a riot on the Place de la Concorde, near the building used for the French National Assembly. The police shot and killed 17 people, nine of whom were far-right ...
Soviet interest in Concorde was discussed on Wednesday 14 May 1969 at the International Security Conference in the US. It was said that East Germany was the hub of Soviet industrial espionage in Europe. [3] [4] On Friday 2 October 1981, Soviet interest in Concorde was discussed on Newsnight. A former spy said that the Soviets may have been ...
Joan McIntyre (December 19, 1931 – June 22, 2016), [1] also known as Joana McIntyre Varawa, was an American author and anti-whaling activist.A high-ranking member of Friends of the Earth in the early 1970s, she founded Project Jonah in 1974 to give focus on the specific goal of preventing whaling.
The Democratic National Committee projected anti-Trump campaign slogans onto Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday, one day before the Demo c ratic c onvention kicks off.. The messages include "Trump ...
The team, led by Bill Strang, Mick Wilde, Doug Thorn and Douglas Vickery, had produced a number of designs when they learned of similar efforts at Sud Aviation under the Super-Caravelle project. Russell developed a friendship with his counterpart at Sud, Louis Giusta, which aided the eventual formation of the Concorde project. Russell became ...
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