Sentences with phrase «for supersonic»

The clientele for supersonic airliners are the tiny group of people who value their time at $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 per hour.

You're going for a supersonic flight in the nightmarishly - neon world of endless barriers!»

The 2016 BMW M5 is the car that the CTS - V was originally conceived to compete with, as this midsize luxury model set the bar for supersonic sedans.

You may have had to have been a fan of the troubled band to appreciate the many aspects at work here, but, coming from someone who grew up listening to Oasis, the soundtrack for this Supersonic documentary ends up being as engaging and heartbreaking as the story told within.

Turbulent mixing has important consequences for supersonic engines, inertial confinement fusion reactions, and supernova explosions.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

A six - month - long series of sonic - boom tests in Oklahoma City in 1964 prompted thousands of complaints and damage claims, a class - action lawsuit, and the beginning of the end for supersonic airliners.

Get ready for some supersonic fun that will make you say WOW!

Four other countries in Asia are known to be developing civilian or military programs for supersonic and hypersonic systems: Japan, India, South Korea and Taiwan.

However, plans for building the first section of Hyperloop are alive and well for the supersonic train that can carry passengers at speeds up to 800 miles per hour.

Not exact matches

Like Grayson Matthews, Supersonic specializes in both writing and licensing music for ads, films, and TV shows.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

At the launch of the jet last November, CEO and founder Blake Scholl said: «Concorde's designers didn't have the technology for affordable supersonic travel, but now we do.»

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Under the agreement, it will help «refine» the aircraft's design and help determine what it would be like for passengers on board an eventual supersonic jet.

This new contract is a separate venture from Lockheed Martin's work with Aerion Corp. to develop a supersonic business jet, the AS2, which has its first flight planned for 2023.

New companies like Boom Supersonic are trying to make use of the technology for transoceanic routes, with backing from investors like Richard Branson and Japan Airlines.

Owned the Seattle SuperSonics pro basketball team, which moved to Oklahoma in 2006 when he sold it after the city of Seattle refused public funding for a new arena

Meanwhile, in his spare time, Musk draws up plans for revolutionary transport systems, such as the Hyperloop and VTOL supersonic jet aircraft known as the Musk electric jet.

A number of companies are seeking to develop his vision for Hyperloop, a supersonic transportation system that will propel pods through an overground tube at a modest 760 mph.

For every dollar in risk capital contributed by private companies to manufacture the supersonic transport plane (SST), the government, according to author Leonard Baker, contributed $ 6.50.

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

There was some mention of «supersonic speeds» and a guy sitting in a chair, white - knuckled hands clutching the armrests, yelling, wearing sunglasses, his hair and necktie blown back by what was implied to be the speed of said CD - ROM drives available for purchase.

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Vaccaro admits that he bought round - trip New York - to - Las Vegas plane tickets for Lopez and Hamilton last August so that the players could attend a basketball camp conducted by Tim Grgurich, an assistant with the Seattle SuperSonics.

As they headed back home, the SuperSonics (state) held a 2 - 1 lead over the Bullets (district) in their playoff for the NBA title

Seattle's 73 points were the fewest ever allowed by the Nuggets, and the then - winless SuperSonics tied a league record for fewest points — eight — in a fourth quarter.

The same goes for Concorde: the famously graceful supersonic airliner produced booms powerful enough to crack windows.

With the help of computer - generated scenery, scientists act as tour guides through exotic spacescapes — clambering around the surface of a comet, for instance, while describing the supersonic jets of ice that erupt from its surface.

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.

A daredevil who parachutes from skyscrapers will try to smash the nearly 50 - year - old record for the highest ever jump, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall

Ultimately, the Federal Aviation Administration banned supersonic civilian flights over the continental United States, partly explaining why the Concorde went out of production and why airliners have been cruising at roughly the same speed for the past 50 years.

Sonic Boom «Last year Congress appropriated $ 11 million for the Federal Aviation Agency to begin the development of a prototype supersonic transport, with technical support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In September, ThunderFish Alpha got its first hit, locating the first and shortly after even a second model of the Arrow jet — a huge success, since people have been looking for wreckage of the supersonic aircraft for 50 years.

«In fact, the Concorde pumped fuel back and forth in its fuselage when it went supersonic to compensate for insufficient elevators.»

Clinton called for increased research on supersonic flight, noise reduction, weather prediction, and navigation and control systems.

But a series of smaller, challenging projects — perhaps modeled after prize competitions for developing «disruptive» technologies, or Lockheed Martin's famed «Skunk Works» facility that pioneered futuristic spy planes and supersonic aircraft — could help build esprit de corps, he says.

Faster — and quieter — airplanes NASA's hypersonics research is pushing aviation speed limits with ultrafast scramjets (supersonic combustion ramjet engines): In 2004, the agency's unmanned hypersonic X-43A craft briefly reached Mach 9.6 (about 7,000 miles per hour)-- a record for an air - breathing engine.

On the aeronautics side, the budget offers $ 624 million in funding in a move the OMB said «paves the way for eventual over-land commercial supersonic flights and safer, more efficient air travel with a strong program of aeronautics research.»

Using the Kepler space telescope, the team spent three years observing 50 trillion stars for the chance to watch as supersonic shock waves reached their surfaces after explosions deep in the core.

Using the Kepler Space Telescope, the team spent three years observing 50 trillion stars for the chance to watch as supersonic shockwaves reached their surfaces after explosions deep in the core.

«The combination of these technologies, we think, will enable us to grow considerably larger than the [Curiosity]- size payloads,» said Ian Clark of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., principal investigator for the agency's Low - Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project.

«The jets must be supersonic, with Mach numbers of two or greater, but because of cooling of the water vapor in the eruption throat, the actual velocity may not be as high as we thought previously,» said Larry Esposito, a conference organizer and a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

On October 4, 2017, NASA completed the first supersonic parachute test in preparation for the space agency's Mars 2020 rover mission.

The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020 NASA's next Mars rover.

The data obtained during these tests are critical for better understanding the environment and dynamics of a supersonic parachute inflation at Mars.

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