nuttin hidden about it... NASA, ex NACA, is charged with promoting and
developing flight technology for the good of the country... Ever look at
the Theory of Wing Sections Abbot and Doenhoff? The taxpayers funded the
major portion of the development and tunnel testing of the wing sections
contained... Is that some sort of conspiracy?... If we ever do have an SST,
regardless of the company brand on the side, it will have to be a
consortium of companies to spread the cost the basic technology and tunnel
testing will be heavily funded by the taxpayers and NASA will be in it up to
it's ears, or we won't have one...
Same thing happened with the Concorde, and the Airbus, and MIG's in Russia,
etc., etc....Guess I don't follow your reasoning...
cheers ... denny

"Steve Firth" wrote in NASA provided all wind
tunnel test facilities free of charge to Boeing.
It's a matter of record. That's a massive (hidden) public subsidy.