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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...miles (1,050 km) per hour. The sound barrier was formerly an obstacle to supersonic...difficulty in passing through the sound barrier, but the effect on those designed...The first pilot to break the sound barrier was Chuck Yeager (1947), in the... Read more

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World Encyclopedia sound barrier Name for the cause of an aircraft...accelerating to a speed faster than that of sound. When approaching the speed of sound, an aircraft experiences a sudden...These are caused by the build-up of sound waves to form shock waves at the... Read more

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	Falls sound barrier proposal returns Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/6/2000; ; 565 words ; Falls sound barrier proposal returns Residents say noise...Falls residents who want a $713,000 sound barrier constructed between their homes and...have been trying since 1990 to get the barrier constructed. Neighbors submitted a petition... Read more
	Who flew faster than sound first? German says he broke barrier in '45 Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/23/2001; ; 459 words ; ...A former Luftwaffe pilot says he broke the sound barrier first-not American Chuck Yeager. But the German...plane reached 690 mph meant he had broken the sound barrier. "I knew nothing about a sound barrier," he said Thursday from Munich. "I just went... Read more
	SS24/2 folk want sound barrier along highway Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 7/4/2003; 284 words ; ...Times 07-04-2003 SS24/2 folk want sound barrier along highway Edition: 2* Section...intent on their request for a sound barrier along a stretch of the Damansara...approving for the construction of the sound barrier, provided that the majority of... Read more
	ROUTE 80 SOUND BARRIER STUDY PROMISED Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/26/1995; ; 596 words ; ...County, NJ) 07-26-1995 ROUTE 80 SOUND BARRIER STUDY PROMISED By MICHAEL CASEY...the feasibility of installing sound barriers along Route 80 between Route 23...testing ground for a new type of sound barrier using plastic instead of masonry... Read more
	Will County required to build sound barrier Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 8/16/2007; ; 219 words ; JOLIET - A sound barrier will go up on Plainfield-Naperville...Latz said. The study indicated that a sound barrier was needed, and residents have requested...the first time the county has built a sound barrier, Latz said. "Where we had federal funds... Read more
	Residents' no to building high wall as sound barrier Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 9/30/2001; 512 words ; ...Residents' no to building high wall as sound barrier Edition: New Sunday Times; 2...objected to a plan to build a sound barrier by an independent power producer...residential areas to act as a sound barrier. "We have handed over a letter... Read more
	Glendening Answers Call for More Sound Barriers Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/17/1997; ; 458 words ; ...and bigger budgets for building sound barriers along the state's roadways. In...spend about $22 million to build sound barriers in nine locations: five in Prince...years to have the state build sound barriers between their homes and heavily... Read more
	LEXINGTON SOUND AND FURY OVER A BARRIER TOWN WINS A WALL; OTHERS CRY FOR ONE Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/13/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...state Highway Department of a sound barrier along routes 3 and 128 in Lexington...battled the Highway Department for sound barriers as traffic clogs major highways...years of everyone else getting sound barriers except for North Chelmsford... Read more
	RESIDENTS CLAMOR FOR SOUND BARRIERS Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/27/1995; ; 597 words ; ...07-27-1995 RESIDENTS CLAMOR FOR SOUND BARRIERS -- OBJECT TO DELAY IN RTE. 80...P WEST PATERSON -- Give us our sound barriers. That was the message about 40...Tuesday to construct a one-mile sound barrier along Route 80. The demonstration... Read more
	Racial Slurs Startle Commuters; Vandals Deface Church and Sound Barrier on Route 450 in Bowie Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/26/2006; ; 479 words ; ...spray-painted on a church and a nearby sound barrier disrupted the morning commute...road, someone had defaced a brick sound barrier that sits on a hill outside the...had draped a blue tarp over the barrier. "I just don't believe that it... Read more

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	Sound barrier grant heads to state Senate. Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/19/2008
	Polito adds local needs to bond bill; Two intersections, more sound barriers targeted.(LOCAL NEWS) Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 6/19/2008
	TRAFFIC 'BREAKING SOUND BARRIER'. Newspaper article from: Shields Gazette (South Shields, England); 9/7/2006

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