How to Use subsonic in a Sentence

subsonic

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• The Concorde’s fares were about 30% more than subsonic first class fares.
  — Jennifer Alsever, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2021
• One group tried to build an app that could deter boars with subsonic sound waves.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Boom, like Concorde, will have to go subsonic over land.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
• Boom predicts that the Overture will be able to serve more than 600 routes around the world in about half the time of subsonic commercial jets.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
• The previous record was held by a Norwegian Air flight that made the subsonic trip in 5 hours and 13 minutes.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 10 Feb. 2020
• Ukraine’s Neptune is a subsonic anti-ship missile with a range of about 175 miles.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• The plane performed like no subsonic plane could perform.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• But no one could hear what the elephants were humming to themselves, in the deep subsonic of their own frequency, as the drums clattered and gongs crashed.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Most dogfights these days are done at subsonic speeds and at low altitudes.
  — Kevin Brown, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
• For the most part, that’s subsonic flight within Earth’s atmosphere.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
• The second set of pilot and main parachutes, which are larger, are deployed at subsonic speeds.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
• In the same way, the air conditioning system has to heat the interior at subsonic speeds and then cool it after Mach 1 is passed.
  — J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
• This generates enough thrust to drive an aircraft at subsonic speeds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2020
• Scholl said Overture’s gull wings will be shaped for both supersonic and subsonic flight modes.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
• The subsonic Hawks are the only fighters permanently based in the east, where the Chinese planes flew their provocative mission.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• All four competitors have developed subsonic jet drones in the past.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• Critics have pointed out that subsonic, non-stealth aircraft like the Reaper could be easy targets for Chinese air defense systems in a near-peer war.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2021
• And so, the lower ends are usually taken by mammals, from the subsonic utterances of giraffes, elephants and hippos to the sounds of monkeys and cats.
  — Peter Hemminger, Longreads, 3 Mar. 2022
• The long-range B-52 heavy bomber flies at subsonic speeds and provides a global strike capability.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2013
• If the pilot ejected at a high subsonic speed, say about 600 knots, the chute would remain reefed; that is, restricted by a cord from opening to its full diameter.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
• Kalibr is a subsonic cruise missile used against targets in Syria.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2021
• The extended-range JSOW cruises at subsonic speeds rather than racing toward targets like an air-to-air missile.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
• The subsonic Kalibr, with its thousand-pound warhead and range of a thousand miles or more, is indicative of this modernization.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Hermeus will use its hybrid engine in turbojet mode when taking off and landing, as well as at subsonic speeds.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
• In that case a subsonic converted airliner like the Boeing 767 would be cheaper and just as effective.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
• This would give the subsonic attack jet the range to strike distant targets, perhaps bombing enemy air defenses to allow manned jets to slip through.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 June 2019
• This makes it, as well as subsonic cruise missiles, a major threat to military installations across Guam.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• Bullet-shaped with stubby wings and a Williams turbofan engine, the Tomahawk flies low at subsonic speeds to avoid enemy radar.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2017
• Scholl said Boom will reduce costs by designing an entirely new engine rather than tweaking one made for subsonic flight.
  — David Koenig, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2022
• Entering the atmosphere, the capsule would use its heat shield to absorb the reentry heating and then employ atmospheric drag to slow down to subsonic speeds.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020

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