Sentences with phrase «of supersonic»

But there's been a great deal of research (dramatic NASA video here) into improving the aerodynamics of a supersonic craft and carefully designing every contour to control the inevitable pressure waves it creates.
The Concorde was a generation ago, yet its legend persists — and the dream of supersonic flight may be returning.
They are designed with a long, pointed nose more like that of a supersonic plane than a conventional high speed train.
What are the Current and Future Impacts of Supersonic Aviation on Radiative Forcing and UV Radiation?
On top of this, the patch prepares for tomorrow's release of the Supersonic Fury DLC, which will add new cars and customisation options.
In a new twist on adventure tourism, hunting outfitters Holland & Holland have teamed with Cape Town's Thunder City, owners of the world's largest private collection of supersonic jets, to take travelers on a wild ride.
Unlike the Blue Oval's previous use of the supersonic moniker, which famously graced some high - performance versions of the Mustang, it's set to be used for an all - electric SUV with a 300 - mile range.
In particular, he had become increasingly frustrated over the development of a supersonic transport, because he thought the Defense Department had locked the FAA out of the administration's decisionmaking for the program.
Wrecked boasts online, local and co-op play for up to four players and looks set to follow faithfully in the wake of Supersonic Software's previous titles Micro Machines v4 and Mashed — to which Wrecked is a spiritual successor.
The data obtained during these tests are critical for better understanding the environment and dynamics of a supersonic parachute inflation at Mars.
«Laboratory analogue of a supersonic accretion column in a binary star system», J. E. Cross et al., was published in Nature Communications 7, 11899 (2016) and can be viewed at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160613/ncomms11899/abs/ncomms11899.html
(The change is on the order of one centimeter per second, the crawling speed of an ant, whereas an atom at room temperature moves at the speed of a supersonic jet.)
By TARA PATEL Aerospace manufacturers are pressing ahead with their plans to develop the next generation of supersonic jetliners despite renewed uncertainty about the environmental impact of exhaust emissions that could ground the high - speed aircraft.
Even in a shrinking modern world of supersonic jets and global FedEx, it has taken Tulaczyk 26 days to reach this spot from California.
The radar detector makes it possible to «see» the quantum states of products of a chemical reaction occurring at the interface of a supersonic beam of gas and a liquid - like surface on a self - assembled monolayer, or SAM.
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.
The map's creators say that the surprising discrepancy provides strong evidence of supersonic winds that blast heat around the planet.
The interest in the development of supersonic and hypersonic systems of propulsion is clearly justified by their outstanding operational capacities, which are far greater than existing systems.
Union Pacific's Snowball — 26 happy, headachy hours from Los Angeles to Sun Valley, Idaho — is a Stutz Bearcat in the age of supersonic aircraft.
In the testimony that helped to defeat government support of the supersonic transport plane (SST) in the Senate was a sophisticated item of scientific knowledge.
Had it not existed, hundreds of supersonic transports might have flown for years before the public noticed the increase in skin cancer.
If they can survive the shock wave and not shatter into bits, if the pilot understands the wild readings on the instruments, they soon pass into the smoothness and serenity of supersonic flight.
Structure of a Magnetic Flux Annihilation Layer Formed by the Collision of Supersonic, Magnetized Plasma Flows
The China Aerospace Science and Industrial Corporation will begin development of supersonic transportation technology, rivaling Tesla CEO Elon Musk's designs with an intercontinental model that will travel at speeds up to 2,300 mph.
Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter - billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
That meant the first generation of SSTs were banned from flying at supersonic speed over land, which greatly reduced the appeal of supersonic aircraft.
But the promise of supersonic offers what Japan Airlines and at least several others could consider a more valuable luxury: travelers» time.

Not exact matches

Record labels used to rely on radio play and music videos to ensure sales, but in today's music industry (one heavily influenced by the Internet, of course), advertising and television are the «new radio,» says David Hayman, creative director and music supervisor at Toronto's Supersonic Creative.
Hayman and Supersonic recently worked with Telus to add a bit of Run DMC nostalgia to their Christmas 2013 ad campaign:
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.
Lockheed Martin and a supersonic airplane start - up are planning to develop a business jet that can travel faster than the speed of sound.
When I'm fighting to gain air superiority with two sections of fighters — eight airplanes — it's like a supersonic chess game during a rock concert.
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.
With this new capital, we are closer than ever to the first flight of our XB - 1 Supersonic Demonstrator in about a year.»
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.»
«We were a company that had never built a supersonic aircraft, and here we had to go straight up into space at Mach 3» — three times the speed of sound.
«Both the House and Senate versions of the FAA re-authorization bill have very positive language on supersonics.
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.
One of the most incredible branded viral videos is still Red Bull's supersonic freefall starring Felix Baumgartner.
The sum is going to Boom Supersonic, Japan Airlines said Tuesday, in hopes that the Denver - based upstart will successfully develop a plane that could cut flight times in half with cruising speeds of Mach 2.2 — more than 1,450 miles an hour.
After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.
The US carried out another simulated bomb run with a supersonic B - 1B bomber on Wednesday, but this time it included the US's top - of - the - line air superiority fighter, the F - 22, according to Yonhap.
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
Simply put, profits are generated via supersonic buying and selling controlled by computers that take advantage of short - term opportunities created by the fragmented markets, not to mention the orders placed by slower and long - term players.
The first space station China ever launched is about to return to Earth as a mess of ultra-hot, supersonic space junk.
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.
Drawing technology from the F - 22 would give the new plane top - of - the - line stealth capabilities as well as the ability to travel at supersonic speeds.
Hyperloop One, a three - year - old, L.A. - based company working to create near - supersonic trains that can whisk both passengers and cargo in giant pneumatic tubes at speeds of many hundreds of miles per h
Researchers leveraged harmonics to transform recordings of normal voice commands into supersonic frequencies.
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