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NEW POSTAGE STAMP IS FASTER THAN SPEED OF SOUND; YEAGER TO JOIN USPS IN HONORING FIRST SUPERSONIC FLIGHT
; ...STAMP IS FASTER THAN SPEED OF SOUND; YEAGER...IN HONORING FIRST SUPERSONIC FLIGHT WASHINGTON...the X-1 attained a speed of 957 miles per...time. The First Supersonic Flight stamp was...the words First Supersonic Flight 1947 in all...feeling of force and speed. On Oct. 15, 1997...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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SUPERSONIC SPEED, STYLE, AND A SPACE AGE THRILL
; ...Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-26-2000 SUPERSONIC SPEED, STYLE, AND A SPACE AGE THRILL -- FLYING THE CONCORDE...travelers on other planes. Air France also grounded its supersonic fleet. But by all indications, travelers will return...
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Business travel at the speed of sound: two strikingly different supersonic business jets are on the drawing boards.(AEROSPACE)
; ...startups--Aerion Corp. and Supersonic Aerospace International...letting it get turbulent. At supersonic cruise, for example, laminar...several patents on the supersonic NLF wing. The NLF wing...fly overland routes where supersonic flight is prohibited. In...cruise ). If there are no speed ...
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The supersonic question: will fleets of high-speed jetliners damage the fragile ozone layer?
; ...voyagers, the prospect of supersonic planes holds an immediate...developing a new breed of supersonic plane. Called high-speed civil transport (HSCT...Wesoky, who heads NASA's high-speed research program at the...grounded U.S. plans to build supersonic passenger planes. Among...question ...
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SUPERSONIC WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD SET
; ...vehicle to exceed the speed of sound on the...failed to set a supersonic world land speed record simply because...do have the first supersonic car in history...set the world land speed record, came to...faster than the speed of sound. Also today...commemorating the first ...
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SUPERSONIC JET LONG ON SPEED, SHORT ON QUIET AND COMFORT.(FRONT)
; The idea of supersonic flight was new and exciting, even...attract the trans-Atlantic customer with speed. As a television correspondent for...and went past Mach 1. We were buying speed, and we got speed. The rest of the stuff didn't matter...
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DI'S CAR HIT `ALMOST SUPERSONIC' SPEED, WITNESS SAYS.(News)
; ...Princess Diana says her car had been going at ``almost supersonic'' speed. But he denied the driver had challenged paparazzi...turned into the freeway, it just took off - almost supersonic.'' Darmon and Rat pursued the car, and a few minutes...
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Caviar at the speed of sound. (supersonic flights on the Concorde)
; ...travel adventure: A twice-the-speed-of-sound flight across the...London. Each trip begins with a supersonic flight on the Concorde traveling at twice the speed of sound. From three to five...prohibited from flying at supersonic speeds while over land, once...miles per hour, or twice the ...
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Sonic boomerang: it has no tail, no fuselage, and at high speed, it essentially flies sideways. After a two-decade hiatus the Oblique Flying Wing--one of the strangest approaches to supersonic aerodynamics--is now back on the drawing board.(United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)(Northrop Grumman Corp.)(Brief article)
; ...is to boost performance and reduce drag, especially at high speed. Wings that stick straight out from the body of a plane are...inefficient at speeds greater than Mach 1, due to the drag caused by supersonic shock waves. Sweptback wings are better, but provide less control...
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Speed-team Britons bid to go supersonic
; ...British team to America yesterday hoping to break the world land-speed record - but still pounds 200,000 short of the money needed...swimming pool - and will be up against another potentially supersonic vehicle, Spirit of America II, driven by the veteran US racer and former world land-speed record ...
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