Sentences with phrase «supersonic planes»

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

A new study of these anomalous arms made with Spitzer shows that shock waves, similar to sonic booms from supersonic planes, are heating large amounts of gas — equivalent to about 10 million suns.

Supersonic planes will never be as efficient as their slower companions, says Bob Welge, the Boeing team's lead engineer, but «you could get from L.A. to Tokyo in about half the time.»

Scholl says passengers could be traveling on his company's supersonic planes within the next decade.

When some swift, massive stars — moving at speeds faster than 50,000 miles an hour — plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of a ship or a supersonic plane creates a shockwave in front of it.

They are designed with a long, pointed nose more like that of a supersonic plane than a conventional high speed train.

Not exact matches

Japan Airlines is investing $ 10 million in supersonic start - up Boom and options planes that would cut flight time in half.

Boom Supersonic is developing a 55 - seat plane which it claims will be able to more than halve the flight time from San Francisco to Washington DC to just two - and - a-half hours.

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.

The new experimental plane is designed to return supersonic passenger air travel to routes over land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The recent debate over the supersonic transport plane is an illustration of my point.

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.

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.

In the supersonic category, Boeing and Lockheed Martin developed concept planes that are both fuel - stingy and quiet — a feat Boeing accomplished with a shape designed to control the sonic boom.

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.

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.

Blowing in the supersonic wind New planes go through an exhaustive battery of tests before leaving the ground, which usually means a stop in one of NASA's 13 wind tunnel facilities.

In Jet Car Stunts the players control a Jet Car — the combination of a formula racing car and a jet plane that lets them perform nearly impossible gravity - defying stunts, like driving through loops, jumping over incredible distances, corkscrew maneuvers, drifting near the edge of the racing track,... all of that in supersonic speed, miles above the ground.

The Boeing 2707 SST still managed to leave a legacy — its supercritical airfoil is now a standard feature on all jet aircraft, and the former Seattle SuperSonics basketball team was named thusly after the Seattle - based company first won a government contract to build the plane at Boeing's factory there.

We've reported before about a Colorado - based aircraft manufacturer called Boom, which is developing a next - generation supersonic passenger plane.

Game Features: — 24 + real - life planes including supersonic jets and military aircrafts — 10 + mission types from pilot training to master class — Realistic flight physics and 3D graphics

Available vehicles include the CH47 Chinook twin - engine helicopter, the supersonic F - 5 Tiger fighter plane, the Russian off - road GAZ 69 (Gorki» y Automobil Zavod), and the famous UHD1 «Huey» helicopter.

Game Features: - 24 + real - life planes including supersonic jets and military aircrafts - 10 + mission types from pilot training to master class - Realistic flight physics and 3D graphics

William Shurcliff was a Harvard physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, helped stop supersonic passenger planes in the 1960s, and took a big interest in passive solar and superinsulated building in the 1970s and»80s.

Until Elon Musk decides to build the supersonic electric plane with vertical take off that he said he knew how to make 5 years ago, most planes will need liquid fuel with a high energy - density.