After the United Kingdom and France had built the ever-iconic Concorde and Russia developed the Tupolev Tu-144, the United States had similar competitive ambitions to create its supersonic commercial aircraft. Such ideologies received approval when, in the early 1960s, then-President John F. Kennedy allowed subsidizing up to 75% of the development expenses for the country’s supersonic jet campaign.
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