Sentences with phrase «of supersonic aircraft»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

«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.

The list can grow long very rapidly — atomic energy generating plants, supersonic transport planes (SST), jet aircraft, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, television, communication satellites, space vehicles that take men to the moon and cameras to Mars and beyond, hundreds of synthetic fabrics, the aerosol can, direct long - distance dialing, heart transplants, advanced computers, and so on and on.

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.

Banks of rock concert loudspeakers stacked a couple of metres from a house near Atlanta, Georgia, are part of an experiment designed to measure the unsettling effects of sonic booms from supersonic aircraft.

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.

Moreover, Mira's course has been taking it through a relatively dense zone of interstellar space, and its interaction with molecules of gas and dust creates a bow - shock effect, similar to what happens when a bullet or a supersonic aircraft travels through air.

As tailfins were influenced by jet aircraft of the 1950s, stylists were inspired by supersonic planes.

Consider a supersonic aircraft releasing external stores while executing a complex flight pattern with the objective that the stores must be placed within an effective distance of their targets.

NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works are teaming up to create the Low - Boom Flight Demonstrator, an experimental aircraft that aims to usher in the era of commercial supersonic flight.