Sentences with phrase «supersonic airliner»
Other historical gems in the aviation hangar include a 1976 Concorde supersonic airliner donated by Air France after its last flight on June 12, 2003; a 1967 Lockheed SR - 71A Blackbird reconnaissance jet capable of Mach 3.3; and a 1938 Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first passenger plane with a pressurized cabin.
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The same goes for Concorde: the famously graceful supersonic airliner produced booms powerful enough to crack windows.
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.
This technology could make supersonic airliners commercially viable: The Concorde flew only transatlantic routes because of the noise.
The clientele for supersonic airliners are the tiny group of people who value their time at $ 1,000 to $ 2,000 per hour.
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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.
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.
Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.