Sentences with phrase «flying supersonic»

We wouldn't be flying supersonic jets at low altitude over our cities, so we shouldn't (as much as possible) do the equivalent to marine mammals.

But the future is now, and there's no sign of flying supersonic cars yet.

Pilots at the US air force test pilot school flew this supersonic T - 38C jet to the right place at the right time so that NASA could capture this photograph of the jet's shock waves.

Not exact matches

The BFR's spaceship could fly more than 4.6 miles per second, according to SpaceX — over 12 times as fast as the supersonic Concorde jets of yesteryear.

That meant the first generation of SSTs were banned from flying at supersonic speed over land, which greatly reduced the appeal of supersonic aircraft.

Had it not existed, hundreds of supersonic transports might have flown for years before the public noticed the increase in skin cancer.

In a scenario where a missile would have to travel a distance of 1,000 kilometers to reach its target, a subsonic system (at 800 km / h) would need 75 min, whereas a supersonic system (Mach 2.8) would need 17 min and 38 seconds and a hypersonic one (flying at mach 6) just 9 min and 30 seconds.

But if sonic booms can be reduced to 65 or 70 PLdB and companies like Boeing see a market for ultrafast flight, Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Supersonic Project, expects to see supersonic business jets flyinSupersonic Project, expects to see supersonic business jets flyinsupersonic business jets flying by 2020.

Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»

They fly in supersonic, two - seat T - 38N jets to practice making high - speed, high - stakes decisions.

A supersonic jet could fly from New York to London in under 4 hours — and circle the globe in just over a day.

«To fly these aircraft over land without restrictions, we have to reduce the sonic boom to acceptable levels,» says Peter Coen, supersonics principal investigator at Langley Research Center.

This technology could make supersonic airliners commercially viable: The Concorde flew only transatlantic routes because of the noise.

the first aid guy FLEW DOWN the mountain at supersonic speed!

But it still nags at him that he turned down his chance to fly on the Concorde — and because the supersonic passenger aircraft was retired in 2003, he never will.

The Denver - based company is developing a new - generation supersonic aircraft, which flies at Mach 2.2, and JAL will now collaborate with Boom to refine the aircraft design and help define the supersonic passenger experience.

With touch screen targeting and added control mechanics, players take full command of every intense skirmish to enableACE COMBAT 3D soars to the Nintendo 3DS platform with an intense 3D experience that delivers supersonic flying, exciting dogfights and high - altitude acrobatics.

Or, my favorite, simply play as Superman or any of the characters that can fly and go supersonic across the top of the city using a surprisingly smooth control scheme.

This former GTA wannabe has evolved into a bonkers experience with super powered skills like supersonic sprinting, mega leaps, flying, psy - blasts and so much more.

And for space travel, it can be a spaceship or u can use supersonic or supershadow to fly in space or on earth.

Defeated Aliens disappear and are replaced with crude geometric body parts that either float in the air or fly away at supersonic speed.

The transformation of Sonic into Supersonic, flying around the screen in an invincible glowing - golden blur as the music sped up and the badniks withered before your awesomeness, represents, to this day, probably the best reward - to - work payoff of any video game I've ever played.

The U.S. military quickly developed supersonic fighter and ultimately bomber aircraft and has been flying them successfully for more than 60 years.

A big problem with supersonic flight was that the sonic boom made it too loud to fly over populated areas.

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