Abstract EN:

The British and French aeronautical industries started research on a supersonic liner around 1956. The two governments reached an agreement in 1962. The two industries would jointly build the first commercial supersonic jetliner in the world. Because the U. S. Was dominating the world aircraft industry, the Concorde was considered a political, economical, technical, commercial threat by the American media (Aviation Week and Space Technology, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week, U. S. News and World Report). From 1962 until 1966, the journalists did their best so that the American administration would accelerate the supersonic program. From 1967 until 1971, environmental groups succeeded in lobbing the press: the anti-supersonic protest movement expanded through the media and the U. S. When the American supersonic program was abandoned in 1971, the press concentrated its ecological campaign on the Concorde so that the plane would be prohibited in the U. S.