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20 examples of Supersonic in a sentence

Only 60 years later, it travels at 80 percent of the speed of sound, and we don't travel any faster today because commercial supersonic air travel turned out to be a bust.
I use RockSim to simulate flights before they go to see if they'll break supersonic, then fly them with onboard computers to verify performance.
Sometimes they just explode before your eyes or come down supersonic.
This guy went up, went supersonic, ripped the fin can off.
The Bell X-1 was the first of many supersonic aircraft to follow, with later designs reaching speeds over Mach 3. Aircraft traveling at supersonic speed create a shock wave with a thunder-like noise known as a sonic boom, which can cause distress to people and animals below or even damage buildings.
It's when an object goes supersonic, moving faster than the sound it makes, that the picture changes dramatically.
This involves solving the famous Navier-Stokes equations to find the variation of pressure in the air due to the supersonic aircraft flying through it.
In the meantime, supersonic flight over land remains prohibited.
That would be a bad day, you know, if that happened, so we have to test, because we are deploying this parachute at supersonic speeds.
The Russians actually flew a supersonic transport before the Concorde.
But our prehistoric brains aren't really built for it, so we invent roller coasters and race cars and supersonic planes, but we get whiplash, carsick, jet-lagged.
So we put together focused nano beam writers and supersonic water jet cutters and excimer micro-machining systems.
The real star of the last of the Airport films is that big supersonic carrier the French created called The Concorde.
And why did they sound like supersonic planes in the battle through the sky in the end ?
The idea of a supersonic helicopter with 14 firepower options and bulletproof body, just seem to go straight into people's hearts.
The clerk at the travel agency (Helen Hunt) who wouldn't give him a refund for his trip earlier in the evening coincidentally shows up there too, on a freelance photography gig (seriously, these people must be traveling on supersonic rockets to get from Chicago to the beachside resort so quickly).
''Death Flight'' begins with a scene of a silver, white, red and orange supersonic passenger jet which looks like a Concorde with four turbo-engines from a 747, two on each wing, flying through the sky.
Many grandiose Gaullist economic projects – from the Concorde supersonic airplane to a national computer industry – failed.
Even China’s supersonic growth is beginning to slow; some economists, including Larry Summers, are predicting that it could grind suddenly to a halt.
And, compared to the dismal recent record in North America and Europe, it looks positively supersonic.