Sentences with phrase «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.

Now, Knipp and her team have determined that when such powerful CMEs come off the sun and speed toward Earth, they create shock waves much like supersonic aircraft create sonic booms.

Current regulations ban commercial supersonic aircraft from operating over land.

As a mathematician and, later, an engineer at Langley, Mary Jackson worked on experimental supersonic aircraft, analysing how air flowed over every tiny feature, right down to the rivets.

The recent announcement by European aircraft manufacturers of plans to build a new supersonic aircraft has renewed concern that a fleet of «daughters of Concorde» could trigger greater destruction of ozone.

NASA has launched a research programme to consider how supersonic aircraft could be designed to minimise their impact on the stratosphere («Green designs on supersonic flight», New Scientist, 14 August 1993).

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.

The IPCC separately evaluated the RF from subsonic and supersonic aircraft operations in the Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere (IPCC, 1999), hereinafter designated as IPCC - 1999.

Furthermore, supersonic aircraft cost more to build and maintain and produce annoying sonic booms over populated areas.

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.

«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.

NASA awards $ 247.5 million cost - plus contract to Lockheed Martin to design and build a supersonic aircraft that does not create a traditional sonic boom.

Where do the bangs and rumbles produced by a supersonic aircraft rank?

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 the past, some technologies sponsored by the US government, from computers to transport aircraft, have become wildly successful, while others, including synthetic fuels and supersonic aircraft, have been disasters.

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.

These intense flashes had all the hallmarks of the Alfvén waves converting their energy into shock waves, in a similar way to a supersonic aircraft creating a boom as it exceeds the speed of sound.

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.