THE supersonic Concorde has suffered a bewildering year. Last February U.S. Transportation Secretary William Coleman decided to allow the supersonic plane .

The Concorde supersonic airliner, built jointly by France and Great Britain, to this day remains the only such supersonic plane to operate successfully in .

Supersonic Airfoils in Subsonic Flight. Many issues surround supersonic flight. Counter-intuitive aerodynamics, airframe issues, fuel burn, engines, the list goes .

Feb 4, 2011 – The exceptionally long nose of the plane must have made you think it as the personal aircraft of Pinokio, just like him, the nose of the plane also .

Feb 10, 2008 – Hypersonic jet could reach Australia in under five hours Tue Feb 5, 7:05 AM ET - AFP British engineers unveiled plans Tuesday for a .

Jan 25, 2011 – Although supersonic flight is by no means a recent technological development, for the members of the general public it remains wistfully .

Jun 30, 2010 – A new design concept for a futuristic faster-than-sound aircraft could break through the legal barriers blocking supersonic passenger flights .

Aug 11, 2011 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unmanned experimental aircraft designed to glide down from the upper atmosphere at 20 times the speed of .

3 Hypersonic transports; 4 Current research and development; 5 Challenges of supersonic passenger flight. 5.1 Aerodynamics; 5.2 Engines; 5.3 Structural .

For example, you can't hear a plane traveling at supersonic speed until it's passed you by. . Now supersonic flight has become more mainstream, we even have .

Jun 28, 2011 – HyperMach shares its vision to launch the 20-seat supersonic jet for the business market and has penciled in June 2021 for the first flight.

5 days ago – caption id="attachment_6686" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The flight test results and photos of IAR-111 will be publicly presented on .

Mar 18, 2011 – The X-51A hypersonic scramjet project is back on track, according to its chiefs, with problems that occurred on the inaugural test flight now .

Apr 3, 2006 – Hypersonic aircraft are much harder to shoot down than a ballistic missile. Although a hypersonic plane isn't very maneuverable, its velocity is .

Jun 20, 2011 – EADS Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation Plane could travel from London to New York in 1 hour powered by hydrogen and oxygen, with .

6 answers - Jul 8, 2006Top answer: An aircraft creates a sonic boom for as long as it is flying above the speed of sound. The sonic boom stops when it slows below the speed of sound. The boom is .

Jun 27, 2011 – A British firm has unveiled plans for a supersonic plane that will travel twice the speed of Concorde and slash journey times across the Atlantic. .

Jun 1, 2007 – A French Concorde site with English translations. Contains some of the more unusual pictures.

Supersonic flight brings with it substantial technical challenges, as the aerodynamics of supersonic flight are dramatically different from those of subsonic flight .

May 27, 2010 – An experimental aircraft has set a new record for the longest hypersonic flight after streaking across the sky Wednesday for more than three .

Jun 22, 2011 – Tickets for a trip in the super-fast jet, known as ZEHST, will likely cost $10000 to $30000. That hefty price tag will keep most regular folks out of .

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What will you hear if a supersonic airplane flying over you? Do you know where is the airplane when you hear it? Can you point out the direction of the airplane .

Jun 19, 2011 – EADS unveils plans for ZEHST, a Supersonic Rocket Plane That Can Carry Passengers From Paris to Tokyo in 2.5 hours. Uses eco-friendly bio .

Aug 11, 2011 – Designed to explore long-duration hypersonic flight, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2) was launched aboard a Minotaur IV .

Jun 27, 2011 – Manufacturer HyperMach claims the SonicStar will be able to cruise at Mach 3.1, a speed made possible by S-MAGJET hybrid gas turbine .

Jul 7, 2010 – This futuristic plane would be expected to achieve .

Jay Jay and his buddies are the American aerial equivalent of England's Thomas the Tank Engine and cohorts: they have jobs to do, experience adventures .

Nov 11, 1989 – WOW! I was a passenger on a British Airways Concorde, moving through the sky faster than a rifle bullet.

Sep 2, 2010 – An airplane flying less than Mach 1 is traveling at subsonic speeds, faster than Mach 1 would be supersonic speeds and Mach 2 would be .

The location of supersonic airplane. If an airplane is flying faster than the speed of sound, it will produce a sonic boom or shock wave. As shown in the right .

Cars, Boats, Planes, and Trains - Who Made The First Supersonic Flight?: Science Fact Finder.

Mar 8, 2011 – Quite a few aircraft in Flightgear are capable of supersonic flight. For some of them, notably modern fighter aircraft, supersonic flight does not .

Jump to Supersonic flight‎: Supersonic aerodynamics are simpler than subsonic because the airsheets at .

Feb 5, 2008 – UK firm unveils exploratory plans for 3000mph eco-friendly passenger jet.

Jun 28, 2010 – IIRC most American supersonic airliner concepts over the last 60 years seem to boast cylindrical nacelles with conical inlet spikes, not least the .

Jun 21, 2011 – 'Zhest' Hypersonic Plane To Carry Passengers At Mach 4, Do London To Sydney In 3.5 Hours.

A company is developing a plane able to fly at the speed of sound.

1969: Concorde flies for the first time. The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight. The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse .

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Aug 12, 2011 – Engineers and scientists monitoring the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 , which was designed to fly at 20 times the speed of sound, .

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an Anglo-French .

Jan 25, 2011 – There's a reason why the Concorde only flew over the Atlantic Ocean: sonic booms. If every aeroplane were supersonic, it'd be extremely noisy .

The Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) will redefine air travel in the 21st Century . . the pressure generated as the plane displaces air at supersonic speeds. .

Sep 6, 2011 – That new plane, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, crashed over the Pacific in early August. Built by Lockheed Martin, it was .

Jun 21, 2011 – EADS says the plane's three engine types -- conventional jets, rockets and supersonic "ramjets" -- will allow it to speed at Mach 4, around 5000 .

The future of passenger flight promises ultrafast trips to any point on the globe.

Aug 11, 2011 – By Adam Levine Military researchers conducting the flight of the fastest unmanned aircraft ever launched said Thursday an "anomaly" caused a .

Jun 20, 2011 – The firm revealed its hypersonic plane design at this week's Paris Air Show. Called the Zero Emission Hypersonic Transport (ZEHST) it would .

Mar 24, 2011 – Space Shuttles are retired it's now Robotic mini shuttles, Waveriders and Hypersonic Flight.

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