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The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report compared it to someone walking on a moving walkway at an airport – the person is ...
The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
A storm sweeping the Atlantic has pushed Eastward-bound airliners to speeds of 833 mph and some could still go even faster.
The Boom Supersonic attempt to achieve supersonic flight at Mach 1.1 is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Monday, weather permitting. Breaking the sound barrier occurs at 761 mph.
We visited Boom Supersonic's hangar in Mojave, California, as the company makes preparations to break the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft.
An unusually strong jet stream over the Atlantic bringing Storm Eowyn to the UK and Ireland is so powerful it pushed a flight ...
At least two flights briefly traveled faster than the speed of sound as the jet stream sped up, but there would not have been ...
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Footage of the incident, captured by a family vacationing in the Turks and Caicos, showed the wreckage leaving behind what ...