That's when my heart started pounding even faster, and my adrenaline went from overdrive to supersonic.
The thing looks like it's about to go supersonic just sitting on a plate.
The Cold War produced supersonic jets, interstate highways, a manned lunar landing and the Internet.
I've seen massively overblown V12 engines before, heard the supersonic yelps of twin turbos in perdition.
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In June the defence minister flew on board a Russian-built supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
But I suspect that one day we'll get a new SST (Supersonic Transport) in the air.
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Rivellini is working on a new supersonic parachute, and others have shuffled into similar slots at J.
It performs a feat equal to a supersonic jet's circling the globe six inches off the ground.
That's music to environmentalists' ears--and practical, too, since "quiet" supersonic aircraft can use existing corporate airport runways.
These were cancelled when rival supersonic aircraft being developed by Lockheed and Boeing were scrapped in 1971.
In 1973, at the Paris air show the Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashed, killing 15 people.
Fasten your seat belts: the next trend in supersonic travel is likely to be up close and personal.
But it can't fly forever, and the industry is already hungry for the next generation of supersonic travel.
Air France, the only other company to operate the delta-winged supersonic jet, has a fleet of five jets.
Although private supersonic travel is some way off, potential producers are enrouraged by the success of Executive Jet Inc.
This gives it a supersonic speed, in excess of 900 mph (1, 450 kph).
But additional matter is spared, according to the new theory, by supersonic winds.
But a lot of space is occupied by a massive fan that the supersonic chip needs to keep cool.
The delivery device had to explode the air inside its breathing chamber at supersonic speeds to form an aerosol cloud of insulin.
Consider leasing a squadron of F-16 fighter aircraft along with T-38 supersonic trainers.
The landing process was dubbed "seven minutes of terror" and involved the world's largest supersonic parachute and a sky crane.
Glamorous though supersonic travel seemed to be, it was also so noisy that most governments banned it over their countries.
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The parliamentary campaign was now "taking off" but it would take a little while before it went "supersonic", he said.
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It became clear that America would no longer favour supersonic flight, so airlines had no need to invest in them.
In 1968, Russia's TU-144 supersonic airliner made its first flight, several months ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde, which it closely resembled.
Eva sipped champagne and tucked into a meal during her supersonic round trip from Filton in Bristol where Concorde was built.
Fifth-generation aircraft are invisible to radar, have advanced flight and weapons control systems and can cruise at supersonic speeds, officials say.
That is critical for flying over America, where supersonic flight is banned because of the noise pollution created by sonic booms.
In 1975, the Tupolev-144 became the world's first supersonic aircraft to go into regular service, carrying mail from Moscow to Alma Ata.
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