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Recent Examples of supersonic
But this is the year the FAA will once again open the door to supersonics.
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Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
The Devils landed winger Patrick Maroon, no stranger to riding shotgun beside former superstar teammates like Connor McDavid and Ryan Getzlaf, as well as the supersonic Michael Grabner last Thursday.
—Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
Simply put, not enough passengers could afford to fly supersonic.
—Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2017
The SuperSonics had back-to-back picks, Nos. 6 and 7, after their championship and took Rutgers’ James Bailey ahead of Johnson.
—cleveland.com, 20 June 2017
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Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
The Devils landed winger Patrick Maroon, no stranger to riding shotgun beside former superstar teammates like Connor McDavid and Ryan Getzlaf, as well as the supersonic Michael Grabner last Thursday.
—Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
Simply put, not enough passengers could afford to fly supersonic.
—Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2017
The SuperSonics had back-to-back picks, Nos. 6 and 7, after their championship and took Rutgers’ James Bailey ahead of Johnson.
—cleveland.com, 20 June 2017
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For comparison, that is around 300 times faster than the top speed of a Lockheed Martin jet fighter here on Earth.Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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For example, in October 2018, during an Israeli airstrike in western Syria, an antiquated Syrian S-200 missile launched against the incoming Israeli jets hit a nearby Russian military transport killing all 14 Russian military personnel on board.Paul Iddon, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Those advantages also have a downside: ramjets are entirely ineffective at low speeds and are often accompanied by turbojets to handle subsonic flight, where the airspeed isn't enough to feed air-hungry ramjet engines.New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
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Measuring about 5½ feet long and equipped with twin turbojets manufactured in-house by the company, the Roadrunner can be kitted out with a variety of payloads.Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
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Previously, the small runway could only handle helicopters and small turboprop planes from Reykjavik and other settlements in Greenland.David Nikel, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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The Special Olympics Airlift was the idea of a former CEO of Textron Aviation, which makes Citation business jets and Beechcraft turboprops, to transport athletes from all over the U.S. to the games.Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024
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Videos circulating online appear to show the exact moment when the bird flies into one of the jetliner’s engines.Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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The long-profitable company’s fortunes soured after two of its 737 Max jetliners crashed in October 2018 and March 2019, killing 346 people.David Koenig and Manuel Valdes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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George Mason University engineering professor Missy Cummings, who has been doing drone research for 25 years, says what most people are actually seeing are likely aircraft, stars, or reflections off of objects, like towers.Tom Hanson, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
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However, Central Command said that warships and aircraft earlier shot down multiple Houthi drones and an anti-ship cruise missile launched by the rebels.Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Supersonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supersonic. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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