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unusual facts about Supersonic



.416 Barrett

The bullet was designed using some NACA low-supersonic-drag equations to design the shape.

7.5×55mm Swiss

At 780 m/s (2560 ft/s) muzzle velocity the standard GP 11 ball bullet retained supersonic velocity up to 800 m (875 yards) (V800Mach 1.1) under ICAO Standard Atmosphere conditions at sea level (air density ρ = 1.225 kg/m3).

Aarne Lakomaa

He was involved in the development of the fighters Saab 35 Draken and Saab 37 Viggen, and later headed R&D at Saab where he designed a number of prototypes, including a rocket propelled interceptor, nuclear weapon carriers, replacements for the Draken and Viggen, and a supersonic business jet.

Art Center College of Design

The Wind Tunnel has hosted events including the biannual Art Center Design Conference, like 2008's "Serious Play"; an annual Summit on Sustainable Mobility, and "Stories from the Source: Radical Craft"; large exhibitions such as "Supersonic: 1 Wind Tunnel, 8 Schools, 120 Artists", "Gardenlab", and "Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living" (with Vitra Design Museum); and various community meetings and events.

Avion de Transport Supersonique Futur

The Avion de Transport Supersonique Futur (ATSF) also known as Alliance was a concept design for supersonic aircraft considered by British Aerospace and Aérospatiale.

Bristol Thor

Although Bristol Aero Engines acquired ramjet technology from the US company Marquardt, BAE put considerable effort into developing the Thor unit, including the construction of a high altitude test plant (HATP), with a supersonic test cell, at their Patchway site.

Bristol Type 223

By 1956 there was enough official interest in this research for the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee, or STAC, to be formed under Sir Morien Morgan to investigate the creation of a supersonic transport.

C-101

As a result, the C-101 saw wider service in Chinese armed forces than its larger cousin C-301, mainly as a stopgap measure for the air force until the newer supersonic missile such as the Russian Kh-31 becomes widely available, and as an upgrade for older missile boats such as the Heku class to replace the original Silkworm missiles on board.

C101

C-101, a supersonic anti-ship missile that can be launched from air, ship and shore

C301

C-301, a large supersonic coastal defense anti-ship missile

David Springbett

In 1980, Springbett set a world record for a circumnavigation of the world as a passenger on scheduled airline flights by completing the trip in 44 hours and six minutes with the help of supersonic travel on the Concorde.

Dean Cameron

Cameron also directed the video "Fat Girl" for heavy metal band Steel Panther as well as co-wrote the song "Girl From Oklahoma" on their 2009 debut Feel the Steel and "Supersonic Sex Machine" on their 2011 follow-up Balls Out.

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket

Following Carl's completion of these flights for the Navy, NACA technicians at the High-Speed Flight Research Station (HSFRS) near Mojave, California, outfitted the LR-8 engine's combustion chambers with nozzle extensions to prevent the exhaust gas from affecting the rudders at supersonic speeds.

Dust reduction system

Olympus was the first to include a dust reduction system on a DSLR, featuring their "Supersonic Wave Filter" (SSWF) dust reduction technology on the Olympus E-1 in 2003.

Flader J55

In order to find out, between 1946 and 1948 engineers at the NACA Lewis Research Center carried out an early research program on supersonic compressor stages.

Folland Midge

The Midge and Gnat were the creation of W.E.W. "Teddy" Petter, a British aircraft designer who had gained wide recognition for his design of the English Electric Canberra bomber and Lightning supersonic interceptor.

France–Japan relations

In June 2005, France and Japan announced a collaboration to build the next generation supersonic commercial aircraft, a successor to the Concorde.

Fuchs Petrolub

Silkolene dedicated many years on technical cooperation with the US Air Force, and was also involved with the supersonic passenger aircraft, Concorde.

Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Goussainville was the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show which led to the deaths of all six people on board and eight more on the ground and is less than 6km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

Hans Guido Mutke

Only after learning about the supersonic flights of Chuck Yeager in 1947 did he attribute these phenomena to the effects of supersonic flight and claim to have broken the sound barrier—years before Yeager did.

Heliosphere

Upon hitting the floor of the sink, the flowing water spreads out at a speed that is higher than the local wave speed, forming a disk of shallow, rapidly diverging flow (analogous to the tenuous, supersonic solar wind).

HSCT

High Speed Civil Transport, a NASA project to develop a supersonic passenger aircraft.

Interceptor aircraft

Efforts to replace the Javelin with a supersonic design under Operational Requirement F.155 came to naught.

J. J. Fad

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, the group were one of the original Ruthless Records acts signed by Eazy-E, and they sold 400,000 copies of their 1987 single "Supersonic" independently before Eazy and Jerry Heller had managed to secure a major label recording contract.

In 2006, Fergie used an interpolation of "Supersonic", and a sample of "Give It All You Got" by Afro-Rican, for her song named "Fergalicious".

L15

Hongdu L-15, a Chinese supersonic training aircraft and light attack aircraft

Live Forever

While Oasis' first two singles, "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker", were modestly received, it was "Live Forever" that "got the world's attention".

Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake

In 1959, the severely deteriorated buildings were used in a science fiction film entitled Beyond the Time Barrier, in which the protagonist, an Air Force test pilot, travels into the future on a supersonic airplane and returns to find that the air base from which he took off is in ruins.

Mary Goldring

Mary Goldring became particularly noted in the late 1960s as the Economists aviation correspondent, for her sustained and trenchant critique of the development programme for the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic aircraft, on the basis of noise, pollution and above all what she predicted would be disastrous commercial economics.

PZL TS-16 Grot

The TS-16 Grot (Arrowhead) was a supersonic Striker and military jet trainer designed in Poland by Tadeusz Sołtyk.

Rajput-class destroyer

They were the first ships in the Indian Navy to deploy the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile systems.

RK-55

Both have formed the basis of post-Cold-War missiles, in particular the 3M-54 Klub (SS-N-27 'Sizzler') which has a supersonic approach phase.

Rocket sled

Perhaps the most famous, the tracks at Edwards Air Force Base were used to test missiles, supersonic ejection seats, aircraft shapes and the effects of acceleration and deceleration on humans.

Science Realm

Science Realms predecessor Science Dawn was a classified program to build a rocket-launched supersonic horizontal-take off horizontal-landing (HOTOL) SSTO spaceplane.

Sea Dart

Convair F2Y Sea Dart, a US experimental supersonic fighter seaplane made by Convair in the 1950s

Spaceport America

In May 2013, SpaceX announced that they had signed a three-year lease for land and facilities at Spaceport America in order to support high-altitude, high-velocity flight testing of the Grasshopper v1.1 reusable launch vehicle (RLV), the second-generation of the SpaceX experimental vertical takeoff, vertical landing suborbital technology-demonstrator.

Stitch's Supersonic Celebration

During "Stitch's Supersonic Celebration", guests celebrated "Galaxy Day" by singing and dancing along to an odd mixture of popular music, including Elvis tunes, The Future Has Arrived from Meet the Robinsons and "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".

Supersonic aircraft

Projects for both large-scale and business jet (see lower) passenger supersonic and hypersonic airliners (Aerion SBJ, HyperMach SonicStar, Next Generation Supersonic Transport, Tupolev Tu-444, Gulfstream X-54, LAPCAT, Reaction Engines A2, Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport, SpaceLiner, etc.) were proposed and now are under development.

Supersonic Low Altitude Missile

The Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM (not to be confused with the U.S. Navy's current Standoff Land Attack Missile) was a canceled U.S. Air Force project conceived around 1955.

Supersonic Man

Supersonic Man is a Spanish/Italian superhero movie directed by Juan Piquer Simón and released in 1979.

Supersonic Racers

Supersonic Racers (Dare Devil Derby 3D in North America and Japan) is a racing video game developed by Supersonic Software and published by Mindscape, Inc. for the PlayStation.

Supersonic transport

In the 21st century some supersonic airliners and business jets (Aerion SBJ, HyperMach SonicStar, Next Generation Supersonic Transport, Tupolev Tu-444, Gulfstream X-54, LAPCAT, Reaction Engines A2, Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport) were under development.

In May 2008, it was reported that Aerion Corporation had $3 billion of pre-order sales on its Aerion SBJ supersonic business jet.

Theodor Meyer

During the first decade of the 20th century, Meyer worked under Prandtl's guidance at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany on the theory of supersonic gas flows, then a brand-new field of study that we now call Compressible flow or Gas dynamics.

Twiggy's Jukebox

Its original host was the model and pop singer Twiggy, and the musical performances were taken from the 1975-1976 LWT series Supersonic.

Variable-sweep wing

Immediately after the war (1949) Barnes Wallis had started work on variable geometry to maximise the economy of supersonic flight.

XS1

The original designation, XS-1, of the Bell X-1, a supersonic prototype airplane designed and built by the United States in 1945


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