That includes a supersonic airplane that would not generate supersonic booms.
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The natural place for supersonic aircraft to have started would be the supersonic private jet.
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Spike, Aerion Supersonic, and Boom Supersonic are targeting to have their supersonic jets flying by the mid-2020s by modifying existing engines rather than spending billions of dollars to make a new one.
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This latest round pits U.S. ambitions for an American-led revival of supersonic jets by start-ups Aerion Supersonic, Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace against European fears of disruptive noise from the planes.
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The results were a disaster for the US Supersonic Transport (SST) program, a 1960s bid to build a supersonic jetliner, changing sonic booms from a minor annoyance to the central objection to supersonic travel.
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NASA is keeping things moving with its X-59 program — the one where it's developing a modern supersonic aircraft that proves the viability of lessening the traditional supersonic "boom" to a mere supersonic "thump," in order to show that supersonic commercial passenger flights over land could be a real thing.
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There's a supersonic plane called Boom that a lot of people find very promising, but I haven't seen ... Supersonic plane.
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Spike Aerospace and Aerion Supersonic are developing business jets, and Boom wants to bring supersonic speeds to commercial air travel.
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Even as Boom aims to develop a "new" supersonic plane, the underlying problems of supersonic flight won't be easily overcome.
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Now Boom is one step closer, as it reveals the XB-245 Supersonic Demonstrator, a 24/210-scale prototype of its Boom supersonic passenger aircraft, which will be doing its first supersonic test flights later this year.
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The rattling sonic booms the supersonic planes produce is a challenge for start-ups that want to revive supersonic passenger travel.
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Overhead, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and startup Boom Supersonic are just some of the players working to revive supersonic passenger flight.
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The ability to fly supersonic without a sonic boom may one day result in lifting current restrictions on supersonic flight over land.
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An artist's illustration of NASA's X-59 QueSST supersonic airplane, which the agency will use to test technologies for quiet supersonic aircraft.
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If successful, it could be the precursor to other quiet supersonic craft and could bring back supersonic overland flight in the future.
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The agency was instead looking for planes that produce quieter supersonic "heartbeats," or what it refers to as Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST).
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Boom Supersonic says it remains on track to return commercial passengers to supersonic flight for the first time since Concorde was retired.
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The last commercial supersonic flight was on 24 October, 2003, when British Airways withdrew Concorde, ending the world's only supersonic passenger service.
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Super Guppy with 2 supersonic jets / Image courtesy of NASA Super Guppy with 2 supersonic jets / Image courtesy of NASA The large aircraft has also been used to ship NASA's supersonic jets as well as modules from the International Space Station.
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Boom Supersonic, a Colorado startup that is developing a new class of supersonic commercial aircraft, has raised $33 million in Series A funding.
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Supersonic flights that don't make this noise but rather more of a low rumble could lift the restrictions on supersonic flight over land.
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NASA and Lockheed Martin have begun to explore designs for a new, quieter supersonic passenger jet (the Concorde's powerful supersonic booms limited its popularity).
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"Now we're continuing that supersonic X-plane legacy with this preliminary design award for a quieter supersonic jet with an aim toward passenger flight," Bolden said.
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"We're continuing that supersonic X-plane legacy with this preliminary design award for a quieter supersonic jet with an aim toward passenger flight," the statement read.
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U.S. startups Aerion, Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are working to reintroduce supersonic passenger travel for the first time since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003.
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While all supersonic planes would fly at less-than-supersonic (or "subsonic") speeds around airports, they'd still make a fair bit of noise on takeoff and landing.
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On Tuesday, the founder of Virgin Group is joining forces with Boom — an aircraft production startup — to unveil the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, a prototype supersonic passenger airliner.
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"We're at the point where we think we can design a quiet supersonic airplane," says Peter Coen, the commercial supersonic technology project manager at NASA's Langley Research Center.
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An Air Force Test Pilot School T-203 passes in front of the sun at supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that are captured using schlieren photography to visualize supersonic flow.
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But NASA has been developing the supersonic plane for years in pursuit of technology that would enable affordable supersonic transportation without the loud sonic booms that come with it.
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The XB-1 "will demonstrate in flight the key technologies for practical supersonic travel" — essentially proving that the company's technology and design can make supersonic flights safe and efficient.
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Meet the man who wants to create the world's first supersonic Hyperloop Meet the man who wants to create the world's first supersonic Hyperloop This segment originally aired Dec.
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The return of supersonic travel has been a hot topic at the Paris Air Show after Boom Technology said it hoped to make supersonic passenger travel a reality by 2023.
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Future tech: Boom Supersonic, which is building and designing what it calls the "world's first economically viable supersonic airliner," announced a $100 million Series B funding round led by Emerson Capital.
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Aerion and fellow supersonic plane makers Spike Aerospace and Boom Supersonic are working to reintroduce ultra-fast passenger planes for the first time since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003.
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For a limited time, shoppers can get the fuchsia Supersonic hair dryer and silver Supersonic hair dryer, as well as Dyson's Airwrap hair curler, with a free $50 Amazon gift card.
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Soviet supersonic KUB surface-to-air missiles played an enormous part in the initial stages of the 1973 Israeli-Arab war, and the Onyx supersonic antiship missile was a genuine marvel.
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Soviet supersonic KUB surface-to-air missiles played an enormous part in the initial stages of the 1973 Israeli-Arab war, and the Onyx supersonic antiship missile was a genuine marvel.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer + $50 Amazon Gift Card — $399.99
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Boom Supersonic has raised a new $33 million Series A round, which it says is enough to build and fly its first supersonic jet, the XB-1 demonstration and testing craft, which will be a 1/3-scale prototype version of the supersonic airliner it will eventually build and sell to air fleet customers.
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TL;DR: The Dyson Airwrap and the Dyson Supersonic are having a rare sale on Amazon: Save $80 on the Supersonic and $109.01 on the Airwrap, its lowest price ever on Amazon.
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BOSCO is part of NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology program, which aims (as you might have guessed already) to create a supersonic aircraft that doesn't create that vexing sonic boom wherever it goes.
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Bottom line: There currently is a U.S. ban on supersonic flight over land, which is why Boom's initial plan is to run on existing supersonic corridors like LA-Tokyo and NYC-London.
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Boom Supersonic, which is building and designing what it calls the "world's first economically viable supersonic airliner," announced today that they've closed a $100 million Series B funding round led by Emerson Capital.
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Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it's creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft.
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Dyson's Supersonic throws a lot of that out the window.
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Stylist to the stars and Dyson Supersonic spokesperson Jen Atkin.
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Current regulations ban commercial supersonic aircraft from operating over land.
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Those same economic problems may dog the new supersonic jets.
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"According to Crawford, the Supersonic goes through "every test imaginable.
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A few visionaries are, however, looking beyond the merely supersonic.
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I created a Google Alert for "supersonic jet" in 2007.
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The Supersonic dried it in a fraction of the time.
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The same can be said for Dyson's Supersonic hair dryer.
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The design of the Supersonic is Dyson through and through.
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NASA says it will build a quieter supersonic passenger jet
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Spike plans to manufacture four supersonic test aircraft, Kachoria added.
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But NASA isn't the only firm developing supersonic passenger jets.
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In 2013, we interviewed Cut Copy for our show Supersonic.
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It was the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed.
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On October 1, 1969, Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
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"Air reacts like a fluid to supersonic objects," NASA said.
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Supersonic is in theaters on October 26 in the US.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer, $399, available in September at Dyson.
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Leaver does not need a Supersonic to dry his hair.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Gift Edition, $399 ($459 value)The cult-favorite Dyson Supersonic hair dryer brings all the innovative, high-tech features you'd expect from a Dyson gadget to your hair-care routine.
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China's new H-6N strategic bomber could carry CJ-100 supersonic cruise missiles or the WZ-8 supersonic stealth spy drone, increasing its maximum strike range to 6,000 km (3,23 miles), military sources said.
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The test, called the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment, or ASPIRE, is a prelude to the real thing where NASA will use the supersonic parachute to land its next rover on the Red Planet.
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"The idea that you're actually going to be able to overcome local opposition to supersonic aviation routes?" said Carl Pope, former executive director of the Sierra Club, who has written in opposition to supersonic planes.
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Supersonic aviation startup Boom is making progress on its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, the airplane that will prove out its tech and pave the way for construction of its future production commercial supersonic passenger jets.
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Supersonic flight—it conjures up ideas of speed, luxury, the future.
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Two other private projects are considering commercial supersonic travel as well.
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October marked the 70th anniversary of the first ever supersonic flight.
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In September, IronSource merged with U.S.-Israeli mobile ad firm Supersonic.
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You've probably seen the hype for the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer.
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Clearly, supersonic travel is not about to take over commercial aviation.
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It destroyed what would have been the normal evolution of supersonic.
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She'd run the Supersonic at the highest heat and air-flow.
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These things are much more important than creating electric supersonic VTOL.
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That's where the Dyson Supersonic might be less appealing for some.
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It flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula.
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Dyson has unveiled its first ever hair dryer: the Dyson Supersonic.
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They fired again after clearing the coastline to take us supersonic.
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Boom isn't the only group trying to bring back supersonic travel.
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Grumman are contracted to design and build supersonic aircraft or space
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Shells that penetrated through tank hulls ricocheted inside like supersonic pinballs.
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Save $40 on the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer — $359.99 See Details
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The DR-8 supersonic drone showed up to the parade, too.
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The last commercial supersonic flight was, of course, Concorde in 2003.
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The company reached a memorandum of understanding with supersonic Aerion Corp.
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Aerion isn't alone in the quest to relaunch supersonic passenger travel.
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Within that, supersonic is smaller, but it's still in the dozens.
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Supersonic jets will whisk people away to everywhere else on earth.
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Tiny pieces of metal sliced through her body at supersonic speed.
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Boom Supersonic nabs $100M to build its Mach 2.2 commercial airliner
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Supersonic flights are consequently banned over land except in exceptional circumstances.
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Scholl's ultimate goal is to make supersonic flight affordable to everyone.
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It also continues to fund the X-59 supersonic flight demonstrator that NASA is developing with a target first flight of 2022, which is meant to provide a blueprint for future commercial supersonic overland passenger aircraft.
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Boom Supersonic wants to revitalize and improve the world of supersonic passenger flight, and it now has a new partner on board in its mission – Japan Airlines (JAL), one of the world's leading passenger flight providers.
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Scholl's goal isn't just to get supersonic flight down to business class prices; he foresees a time when they can bring costs down far enough that supersonic travel will be accessible to anyone who can fly today.
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I just got my ears flushed so now I have supersonic hearing.
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Photo: DysonThe Airwrap styler looks very similar to Dyson's Supersonic hair dryer.
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The Supersonic comes with magnetic attachments to help you style your mane.
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From there, it's just a short, nearly supersonic trip to the destination.
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But Boom isn't the only company looking at bringing back supersonic travel.
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And engineers increasingly see problems with engines and supersonic booms as fixable.
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New supersonic business jets under development will make that a lot worse.
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A new breed of supersonic executive jets will be even more polluting.
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Boeing for instance had proposals for supersonic, why didn't they build it?
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If you can't fly supersonic over land, well that destroyed the market.
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At the top of the Dyson Supersonic is that trademark "O" design.
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Nothing else... Dyson has unveiled its first ever hairdryer: the Dyson Supersonic.
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Mr Coen thinks it will, at first with small, supersonic business jets.
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Is it just us, or did 2015 fly by at supersonic speed?
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Li, for example, has the power of supersonic hearing, though no eyesight.
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Supersonic airliners with 100 or more seats would be commercially more risky.
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The development could lead the way to supersonic travel for the masses.
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The supersonic Concorde jet used to fly to its main international airport.
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Lockheed has been working with NASA to develop a quieter supersonic jet.
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Both companies are aiming to introduce supersonic airplanes in the early 2020s.
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We had supersonic transport — until almost 15 years ago, when it stopped.
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New supersonic aircraft will help devour that carbon budget faster than ever.
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It's a Dyson Supersonic Special Edition that goes for a whopping $400.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer with free $50 Amazon Gift Card, $399.99; amazon.
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" Sabie claims the ADIFO's unusual shape "is 'natural born' for supersonic flight.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Aerion Supersonic, the developer of a $75003 million supersonic business jet, has signed provisional purchase contracts with wealthy customers as it looks to greenlight the project over the next 18-24 months, a senior executive said.
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By contrast, if the FAA merely asked supersonic aircraft to adhere to the standards that were in place back in 2006 (known as Stage 3 standards), Scholl estimates, that would reduce supersonic ticket costs by some 15 percent.
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It will be used to collect community response data on the acceptability of the quiet sonic boom generated by the aircraft, helping NASA establish an acceptable commercial supersonic noise standard to overturn current regulations banning supersonic travel over land.
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When the Supersonic launches in September, it'll run a cool (read: hot) $400.
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Engineers are figuring out how to fly at supersonic speeds, without the boom.
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BY THE standards of Brazil's justice system, the courts moved at supersonic speed.
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This particular dryer, the Dyson Supersonic, is in a league of its own.
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GE Aviation is supplying its Affinity supersonic series of jet engines for AS723.
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Several startups are racing to get next-generation supersonic prototypes in the air.
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In November, the defense giant announced its experimental supersonic plane had entered production.
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Google's Area 120 incubator has launched an experimental new messaging app called Supersonic.
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Jetsetters longing for a return to supersonic travel might soon be in luck.
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Two enthusiastic thumbs up for the supersonic timing of Sonic the Hedgehog's arrival.
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But is there a realistic possibility that supersonic air travel could ever return?
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A supersonic airliner with 100 or more seats would be commercially more risky.
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But for airlines the supersonic boom has given way to a frustrating bust.
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Before Concorde's first commercial flight in 22019 supersonic passenger-travel was science fiction.
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Safe travels Your flight of the future will be supersonic, nuclear -- with lasers?
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"We definitely want to see differences between subsonic and supersonic standards," Vice said.
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"Supersonic" is rated R (under 17 not admitted without parent or adult guardian).
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It's just he's going in with someone not just elite, but almost supersonic.
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That, or Bieber saw Supersonic and was really into the Gallagher brothers' swag.
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Supersonic transcribes everything you say and replaces words with emoji where it can.
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That ban was one reason the first commercial supersonic plane, the Concorde, failed.
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The extraordinary convenience of supersonic flight may lead us all to travel more.
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Second, the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer is the internet's latest beauty tech obsession.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer (silver) with free $50 Amazon gift card, $399.99; amazon.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer (fuchsia) with free $50 Amazon gift card, $399.99; amazon.
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The first is the blast wave, which spreads air particles at supersonic speeds.
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Yet recent technological advances have enabled supersonic designs that don't create loud booms.
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Boom unveiled a design for its supersonic XB-1 jet in mid-November.
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A push by U.S. start-ups Aerion, Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace to re-introduce supersonic passenger travel, for the first time since Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, has triggered a debate over noise even at the subsonic level.
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The bill also requires the FAA to establish domestic landing and takeoff standards on noise for supersonic jets, a move that could kickstart the fledgling U.S. supersonic jet industry despite resistance by European nations that want tough rules on noise.
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This won't happen anytime soon (the new supersonic planes don't even exist), but the FAA is considering rules about noise certifications and other rules for supersonic planes — once the government settles on what boom levels are tolerable for us land dwellers.
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A push by American start-ups Aerion, Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace to re-introduce supersonic passenger travel, for the first time since Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, has triggered a debate over noise even at the subsonic level.
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And in a potential boost to efforts to bring back faster air travel, the developer of a $120 million supersonic business jet, Aerion Supersonic, said it would be able to take off and land without regulatory changes in the United States.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer The Dyson dries without overheating to prevent damage to hair.
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She's even able to reach supersonic speeds immediately thanks to this handy little trick.
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The alternative is for policymakers to ease standards for supersonic jets, the ICCT adds.
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Ian Clark leads the supersonic parachute team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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But you decide that you are the guy to start a supersonic jet company.
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The only alternative that has been tested experimentally is called a supersonic-combustion ramjet.
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IN OCTOBER 2003, the age of supersonic passenger travel came to an inauspicious end.
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Had that not happened I think we'd both be flying on supersonic jumbos today.
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Until that's reversed I don't think there's a market for the supersonic private jet.
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It currently owns Allo, Android Messages, Duo, Hangouts, Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger and Voice.
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There's also, probably, more technology inside the Dyson supersonic than your average blow dryer.
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VSS Unity completed her first supersonic, rocket-powered flight this morning in Mojave, California.
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But the Concorde went bust in 2003, and supersonic jets fell out of favor.
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Contrary to early rumors, the Supersonic is not silent, but it is pretty quiet.
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Boom wants to build a supersonic jet for mainstream passengers; here's its game plan
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A $10,000 round-trip ticket bought a seat in the only class available: supersonic.
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If supersonic flight is ever to return, the noise has to be toned down.
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Concorde, the world's only reliable supersonic passenger jet, wowed travellers for nearly three decades.
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The Dyson Supersonic adds that same high-tech bladeless technology to your hair dryer.
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But actually, I have found everything we are learning with the Supersonic very exciting.
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Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first supersonic test flight on Thursday, CBS News reports.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned supersonic flights over U.S. land since 1973.
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The first time I used the Supersonic, I put it to the ultimate test.
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EDT A previous version of this article said Supersonic is only available for Android.
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At StrictlyVC's last event, we played host to a supersonic jet company called Boom.
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Now it looks like the world is on the verge of a supersonic renaissance.
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The whirr is noisier than a Dyson Supersonic but similar to popular standard hairdryers.
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First there was the $224 Supersonic hair dryer, followed by $21995 Airwrap heat styler.
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The good news is you don't need supersonic internet speeds to make these work.
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Yet even relatively slow supersonic travel has never overcome high investment and fuel costs.
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When a Supersonic appeared on the screen, several guests held their phones aloft, recording.
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With the cult-favoriteDyson Supersonic professional hair dryer, he blew-dry her hair downwards.
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The company is exploring the possibilities of commercial supersonic and hypersonic planes, Muilenburg said.
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U.S. supersonic jet makers are working to reintroduce ultra-fast passenger planes for the first time since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) working on proposed rules for noise certification of supersonic aircraft by 2020.
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"We're on track to fly in 2023, and before that year is out cross the Atlantic at supersonic speed, which will be the first supersonic crossing since the Concorde's retirement 20 years earlier," Aerion chief executive Tom Vice said ahead of the Oct.
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But supersonic flight startup Boom wants to change the perception of commercial aviation as an emissions-costly prospect, starting with their testing development program for the XB-1 supersonic demonstration aircraft that will eventually lead to the development of its Overture passenger aircraft.
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The Russian airline Aeroflot also flew commercial supersonic flights using the Tupolev Tu-144 aircraft.
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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin's experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production, the defense giant announced Friday.
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The Supersonic dryer - which is priced at $399 - had been a "runaway success", it said.
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Yet there it was on the control-room screen, impotently flapping in the supersonic breeze.
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This limits supersonic planes to oceanic routes, further reducing their ability to be mainstream airliners.
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Regularly $399.99, you can snag this rare $80 coupon and get the Supersonic for $319.99.
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It also plans a subsonic demonstration flight in June, and a supersonic demonstration next year.
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"The Dyson [Supersonic Hair Dryer] diffuser attachment wins, every time, hands down," he says. Why?
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No engines suitable for passenger jets travelling at supersonic speeds are currently on the market.
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There's a whole roadmap for supersonic efficiency which basically no one is working on today.
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I think that's true, although I certainly don't know what half of them mean. "Supersonic"?
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My wife cradled the new Dyson Supersonic hair dryer like it was a newborn baby.
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At $399, the Dyson Supersonic is many times more expensive than an average blow dryer.
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The Supersonic churns out a lot of air at an incredible rate—which helped instead.
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Askew in supersonic air flow, the aerodynamic stress was too much and shattered the orbiter.
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Both the Lockheed and Boeing jets are supersonic and have two seats and one engine.
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The new experimental plane is designed to return supersonic air travel to routes over land.
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The images of the intersecting supersonic flows are a first for science, according to NASA.
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In several interviews, he mentioned that his next big idea is a supersonic electric jet.
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She declined to specify whether it could reach supersonic speeds, common for modern fighter aircraft.
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Boom isn't the only group trying to bring back supersonic flights to the commercial airways.
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NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin $20 million to design a new series of supersonic aircraft.
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Lockheed Martin and other aerospace companies are developing a number of supersonic and hypersonic programs.
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Rutherford recognizes the interest in supersonic travel, as it would slice travel times in half.
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The Airwrap also includes a "pre-styling dryer" head that looks just like the Supersonic.
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This is why some think small supersonic executive jets might be first into the air.
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New research argues that bringing back supersonic flights would by an environmental disaster, Reuters reports.
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GE, Honeywell, Tencate and Stratasys are among the firms working on the Boom Supersonic development.
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It will be close enough to watch solar wind whip up from subsonic to supersonic.
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Scholl says passengers could be traveling on his company's supersonic planes within the next decade.
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"But from an Earth perspective, this certainly has made a supersonic man out of him."
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During the Cold War, the Air Force wanted to push the boundaries of supersonic flight.
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It remains to be seen if the mystery supersonic cruise missile will be among them.
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Military aircraft routinely conduct supersonic flights but the sonic booms are rarely felt on ground.
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Boom Supersonic announced 76 orders from "five major airlines", although only Virgin has been unveiled.
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To this date, the Concorde remains the world's first and only commercially viable supersonic airliner.
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A Google search for Dyson Supersonic and "worth the hype" yields more than 9,22017 results.
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I'm not yet expecting it to beat the Supersonic, but we're willing to be surprised.
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But returning commercial supersonic transport aircraft, or SSTs, to the skies could upend those efforts.
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The documentary "Oasis: Supersonic," which detailed the band's rise to fame, came out in 2016.
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He added the planes had been "authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons".
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Supersonic flight requires engines that use much more fuel, and more carbon, than slower planes.
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A phreatic explosion happens when trapped water expands and turns into steam at supersonic speeds.
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True, a few supersonic business jets flying around wouldn't have a major impact on emissions.
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Geoffroy de Courcel the French Ambassador (left) and Julian Amery the British Minister of Aviation (right) look at a model of a supersonic airliner, on November 29, 1962 in London, where they signed an agreement for the joint development of a supersonic passenger plane.
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"Through this partnership that combines Aerion's supersonic expertise with Boeing's global industrial scale and commercial aviation experience, we have the right team to build the future of sustainable supersonic flight," Steve Nordlund, vice president and general manager of Boeing NeXt said in a statement.
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"Developing, building and flight testing a quiet supersonic X-plane is the next logical step in our path to enabling the industry's decision to open supersonic travel for the flying public," Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission, said in a statement.
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A brand new Dyson Supersonic costs $399.99, but this refurbished one will only set you back $223.99 Dyson Supersonic hair dryer (refurbished) — $223.99 See Details Pure Hot+Cool Link HP02 (refurbished) Don't be fooled by its size; this bad boy packs a big punch.
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Dyson has taken their engineering savvy into the beauty world with the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer.
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Correction: This article has been amended to remove a comparison between supersonic and hypersonic flight times.
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Earlier this year, Virgin Galactic completed a supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship.
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But the technology inside the Supersonic hair dryer is almost completely different than a Dyson fan.
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By the early 1970s, NASA had narrowed its field of potential supersonic parachutes to two finalists.
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William made a nationwide map of supersonic "bang zones" that was particularly effective at rousing opposition.
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As it descends into the Martian atmosphere, the ship would then use "supersonic retro propulsion" — i.e.
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Africans are indeed rising, although not at the supersonic pace at which Africa is supposedly rising.
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A startup is trying to reinvent supersonic airline service 2109 years after the Concorde's last flight.
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Supersonic travel is currently banned over land in the U.S. for the tremendous sound it produces.
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A sonic boom is a noise that you hear any time a supersonic aircraft flies over.
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But it was after that that we banned supersonic travel, when Concorde looked like a threat.
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My wife was not only impressed with how the Dyson Supersonic works, but how it felt.
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Japan Airlines, for instance, invested in Colorado-based Boom Technology, which is building a supersonic plane.
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Until now, supersonic designs have struggled to meet current subsonic noise standards due to engine constraints.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer for $359 ($40 off): We loved this hairdryer when we reviewed it.
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In just four years, you could travel in a futuristic transportation network at near supersonic speeds.
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Any company making supersonic planes may soon need to conform to more rigid environmental standards, regardless.
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A woman could not fly supersonic planes: No-one knew why, but that was the rule.
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He boasted about the aircraft's supersonic speed -- saying it can move at 16 miles per minute.
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This is why a supersonic jet passing overhead is often heard as a distinctive double boom.
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" He explained, "Concorde's designers didn't have the technology for affordable supersonic travel, but now we do.
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And once the Dragon reaches the Red Planet, it will use supersonic retro propulsion to land.
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Scholl said 1,300 supersonic jets could be built over 10 years, according to third-party projections.
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For a fleeting thirty years during the 20th century, supersonic commercial air travel was a reality.
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Now, she's cleared to operate the cutting-edge fifth-generation stealth, supersonic fighter aircraft in combat.
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Gizmodo put the Dyson Supersonic to the test to see if it was worth the money.
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Concorde-style supersonic flight could be legal across the United States as early as next year.
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The new experimental plane is designed to return supersonic passenger air travel to routes over land.
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The plane is a twin-engine, high-altitude, supersonic jet trainer, it said on its website.
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We're also seeing rapid progress on delivery drones, self-driving trucks, supersonic airplanes, and even rockets.
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This is the first step toward revising the FAA's 45-year-old rules governing supersonic transport.
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Modern commercial supersonic travel won't pollute any more than the subsonic business-class travel it replaces.
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Because of its sonic boom, the jet was not allowed to reach supersonic speeds over land.
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Today, American start-ups like Boom, Aerion and Spike are aiming to revive supersonic air transport.
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He can start by cutting ties with supersonic aircraft developers — before it really is too late.
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As with the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer and Dyson Airwrap styler, the Corrale is not cheap.
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"It would be effective for cruise missiles up to maybe the supersonic cruise missiles," Clark said.
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Also paraded were two new drones, the supersonic wz-8 (pictured) and the stealthy Sharp Sword.
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Reebok's Supersonic 2.0 is about as functional and versatile of an everyday shirt as it gets.
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"Right now, the FAA is saying we'll accept supersonic when we hear what's acceptable," says Hammond.
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That's not a huge deal for normal aircraft, but it could be ruinous for supersonic jets.
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Future caps on aviation emissions could, for instance, spur supersonic jets to adopt low-carbon biofuels.
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ORLANDO, Florida, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Aerion Supersonic, the developer of a $120 million supersonic business jet, said on Monday it would be able to take off and land without regulatory changes in the United States in a potential boost to efforts to bring back faster air travel.
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Rockets experience supersonic speeds, extreme heat differences, and intense vibrations when they travel to and from space.
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We won't know for sure until September, when the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer is expected to ship.
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Boom has said its supersonic demonstrator plane, the XB-1, will break the sound barrier this year.
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Right now, Best Buy is offering its members 20% off all hair dryers, including the Dyson Supersonic.
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Whether supersonic commercial aviation really will work this time should thus be clear by the mid 2020s.
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As a result, several groups of aircraft engineers are dipping their toes back into the supersonic pool.
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But supersonic travel would still be out of reach for most leisure travellers except the super-rich.
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While Dyson claims the Supersonic is quieter than other hair dryers, it is by no means silent.
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NASA is interested in sonic booms because it is trying to create designs for quieter supersonic aircraft.
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Details: The images show a pair of T-38 training aircraft flying in formation at supersonic speeds.
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If supersonic air travel is ever to return, Concorde's successors will thus have to quieten their act.
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The American Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (SLAM) project explored such a scheme in the 1950s and 1960s.
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These cannon blast booms led Congress to ban supersonic jets from flying over US soil in 1973.
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The Range Rover Velar is a supersonic take on what it means to range in the rover.
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Jet startup Boom believes the future is supersonic, and it's now got enough money to prove it.
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Denver start-up Boom Technology is planning a test flight for its supersonic jet later this year.
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In November, Lockheed Martin began production of its supersonic plane, which will be test piloted by NASA.
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And neither, he added, did his friend Elon Musk, who's now developing autonomous cars and supersonic rockets.
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NASA points to noise pollution as one of the barriers preventing the return of commercial supersonic flights.
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Plus, the hair dryer works incredibly fast, as Mashable found in our past review of the Supersonic.
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If it is, then its noise "signature" might become a certification standard for future supersonic passenger aircraft.
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The photograph was taken in the exact moment when the pilot transitioned from subsonic to supersonic speed.
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Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Set, $399This lightweight, powerful dryer will give them a sleek blow-dry fast.
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Bregoli, meanwhile, was getting high and fighting with her mother — normal teenager stuff, on a supersonic scale.
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Britain's ministry of defense said Typhoon aircraft were deployed at supersonic speed to intercept a civilian plane.
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But Boom will need to convince policymakers to change the rules to allow supersonic flights over land.
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You might remember the Concorde, the supersonic plane that came to symbolize technological optimism and extreme luxury.
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But whatever the technology, a supersonic plane unavoidably wastes a lot more fuel than its subsonic competitors.
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Wasted fuel, noisy skies and an unraveling climate — supersonic flight is an idea whose time has passed.
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China also exhibited two new drones, the supersonic WZ-8 and the sleek and stealthy Sharp Sword.
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Listen up, folks: You can save $50 on an exclusive Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer gift bundle today.
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The boom of supersonic air travel looks set to penetrate U.S. skies, following legislation agreed by Congress.
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At those temperatures, water expands into steam at supersonic speeds, with enough energy to shatter solid rock.
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The plane then swooped into the upper reaches of the atmosphere, 295,000 feet high, at supersonic speeds.
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He recently founded Hyperloop One, a project to move people long distances through tubes at supersonic speeds.
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This is a key development target because the whole point of the aircraft is to demonstrate that it's possible to fly at supersonic speeds without loud booms at ground level, in order to show regulators that it's possible to fly commercial supersonic aircraft over land and populated areas.
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The space and aeronautics agency is giving Lockheed Martin a $247.5 million contract to build a supersonic aircraft.
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The new Dyson Supersonic applies that knowledge to the beauty category, filtered through the company's strict quality control.
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The Dyson Supersonic hair dryer can be used alone (right) or with a variety of specially designed attachments.
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Before receiving its X number, NASA&aposs supersonic plane project was called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration mission.
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Another company, Spike Aerospace, is developing its own S-19993 Quiet Supersonic Jet , which would have similar performance.
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Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) is assigned to work for an engineering team that uses a supersonic pressure tunnel.
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Four years after its conception, it's ready: the British electronics company unveiled the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer today.
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NASA's supersonic parachutes have barely evolved in the 46 years since that milestone above the New Mexico desert.
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On the wall is a piece of a Concorde jet, a supersonic plane that was discontinued in 2003.
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But for new supersonic models, like NASA's X-59, "Any noise is an issue," aviation historian Bednarek said.
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Reality came fast — faster than you can say "makeup tax," when I learned that the Supersonic cost $400.
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Boom Supersonic announced Wednesday that it has bought the cloud-based design system from Dassault Systemes called 3DEXPERIENCE.
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The last hair dryer that we're gonna try out in this test is the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer.
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Here, see how these three women use the Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer to create their power looks.
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That means you can snag the Supersonic for the relatively low price of $319.99 — that's $80 in savings.
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Using your Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer and the smoothing nozzle attachment, begin rough drying hair all over.
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And in February, NASA announced that it is working on developing a quieter supersonic jet for commercial use.
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AMLG: Today's guest is Blake Scholl, founder of Boom — a supersonic civilian aircraft company based in Denver, Colorado.
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Basically because of the supersonic over land ban, you have to skip a step in your market development.
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When I first wrote about the Dyson Supersonic almost six months ago, she, like many others, was intrigued.
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My wife, who generally endures technology, was clearly looking forward to putting the Dyson Supersonic to the test.
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Dyson has also made the Supersonic safer to use in other ways, particularly when it comes to heat.
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Three startups — Aerion, Spike Aerospace, and Boom Supersonic — are designing planes that would cut long flights in half.
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This is already a popular idea gaining traction—check out this concept for the first supersonic private jet.
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This is different from the hyperloop, which would clock near supersonic speeds, and be used for long distances.
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Despite uncertainty over regulation, the industry is moving closer to making commercial supersonic air travel a reality again.
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They were designed to test ejection seat technology, at a time when the US was developing supersonic aircraft.
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GE said the engine would enable supersonic flight over water and subsonic flight over land without regulatory changes.
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It recently hosted the very first test of a portion of the Hyperloop One sub-supersonic transportation system.
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The lower noise could open up more destinations than was available to the now retired supersonic jet, Concorde.
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For this reason, supersonic planes have long been banned from flying over land, ultimately making the jets unprofitable.
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Creating affordable supersonic flight has been on Branson's radar since the turbojet-powered Concorde retired back in 2003.
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Sonic booms are loud sounds similar to that of an explosion that can be generated by supersonic flights.
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Cold War-era sci-fi offered a dispiriting menu of extraterrestrial avatars: supersonic birds, scaly monsters, gelatinous blobs.
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"Oasis: Supersonic" follows the squabbling brothers and bandmates Liam and Noel Gallagher during their heyday in the 1990s.
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"We really rushed into the supersonic age before we had the technology to do it efficiently," Scholl said.
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Specifically, they're trying to design and build a supersonic passenger plane that goes 2.2x the speed of sound.
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The Supersonic uses "intelligent heat control" to make sure the temperature never goes above the chosen heat setting.
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There's also a "lounge" area where you can go to discover other Supersonic users, similar to Houseparty's approach.
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When a projectile flies faster than Mach's number, it travels at supersonic speed — a speed faster than sound.
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The Concorde, which provided supersonic flight commercially from 1976 until 2003, couldn't operate over land for this reason.
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Supersonic transport is not new — the Concorde flew from 1976 until 2003 — so some predictions can be made.
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Hours after the missile test, two American supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers conducted a drill over South Korea.
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Even if you don't know anything about hair dryers, you've inevitably heard of the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer.
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Although he was broken twice in the opening set, Djokovic was rattling through the games at supersonic speed.
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And why does the solar wind suddenly accelerate to supersonic speeds at a certain distance from the Sun?
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A supersonic vertical-takeoff-and-landing electric jet would be interesting to do at some point, I think.
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So why not replace the FAA's blanket ban with a simple noise standard, and let supersonic travel flourish?
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Yet there are also skeptics who argue that regulations aren't the only thing holding back our supersonic future.
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So a plane flying supersonic requires a lot more energy than one flying below the speed of sound.
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U.S. based startups Aerion Supersonic, Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are all aiming to revive ultra-fast flights by the mid-2020s by modifying existing engines rather than spending billions of dollars to make a new one to serve a market that has been dormant since Concorde stopped flying in 2003.
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In February, NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for a new supersonic plane, with the intention of beginning tests in 2020: the aircraft would be experimenting with Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST), which will reduce the sonic boom that makes these types of planes difficult to use around populated areas.
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The X-59 supersonic research airplane developed by NASA, which aims to pioneer quiet supersonic flight for eventual use in commercial aviation, is one step closer to reality thanks to testing of a system it will use to provide the aircraft's pilot with a fully virtual view of the skies.
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Forty-eight years after the Concorde made its first flight, supersonic commercial aircraft remain enormously complex and prohibitively expensive.
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Photo: Virgin GalacticEarlier today, the VSS Unity went supersonic during crewed tests, reaching speeds of 1,220 miles per hour.
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Since supersonic-parachute research had been stagnant for 43 years, the team had to get creative when recruiting talent.
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One of these attachments is basically a mini version of the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, which costs $400 itself.
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When British and French aeronautical engineers designed the Concorde in the early 1960s, they thought they understood supersonic transport.
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Blake Scholl, Boom's chief executive, says that supersonic tickets will cost about the same as subsonic business-class ones.
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A mechanical engineer at Dyson, however explained the "major ways" in which the Supersonic stands out from other competitors.
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The Concorde was a generation ago, yet its legend persists — and the dream of supersonic flight may be returning.
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Images of the mysterious missile on a modified MiG-31, a supersonic near-space interceptor, appeared in mid-September.
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It centers on supersonic jets that can fly faster than the speed of sound, or 250 miles per hour.
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After a scorching, supersonic dash through Mars's thin atmosphere, it was supposed to glide gently towards the planet's surface.
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The idea of supersonic transport (SST) for civilians is back on the cards, 16 years after Concorde's last flight.
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As with supersonic passenger planes, the private firms involved in this field have a tendency to make optimistic claims.
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"This is supersonic passenger air travel, no bullshit, and it's actually affordable," Boom CEO Blake Scholl told The Guardian.
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Since the 1940s executives in the aerospace industry had predicted that the future of passenger travel would be supersonic.
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Let's do an airline and let's build an airplane company and a supersonic airplane company on top of that?
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The shininess is what Dyson supersonic promises: the less you damage your hair with heat, the shinier it appears.
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The spaceplane's engine burned for 30 seconds, pushing the Unity supersonic to Mach 1.87 before the engines cut off.
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The Dyson Supersonic wants to replace the hair dryer in your bathroom with a lighter, safer, and quieter alternative.
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South Korea said it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on Monday.
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Boeing unveiled a rendering for a hypersonic passenger plane in June, which is the next speed class above supersonic.
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Such a craft could help bring back consumer supersonic flight, and would even be able to do overland routes.
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But when a jet goes supersonic, the aircraft starts to move faster than the soundwaves ahead of the plane.
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Real talk: Someone who can't wait for 212K TV or supersonic private travel has no patience for shoe-tying.
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Real talk: Someone who can't wait for 203K TV or supersonic private travel has no patience for shoe-tying.
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But this one is mounted in the North American Eagle, a 56-foot-long supersonic aircraft turned racing car.
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For now, only over-water itineraries are under consideration due to widespread bans on civilian supersonic flights over land.
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Supersonic travel died out in 2003, when the last 100-passenger Concorde jet settled down on a London runway.
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If a supersonic airliner were to fly again, however, such a noisy footprint would have to be toned down.
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These days, an airframe that can't cruise at supersonic speeds might as well be a diesel-powered propeller plane.
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The highly versatile, supersonic B-1 carries the largest conventional payload of any aircraft in the US Air Force.
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This is called supersonic retro propulsion, and SpaceX has used it to land its Falcon 9 rockets after launch.
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In 2016, NASA announced it had signed a deal for the design of a modern low-noise supersonic prototype.
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In addition to the high-tech specs, the Dyson Supersonic has four heat settings and three air flow settings.
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SuperSonic SourTonic is a sour beer made with cucumber and juniper berries—an homage to the gin and tonic.
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That is a real bargain compared with what a bookseller with the improbable name Supersonic Truck is asking: $1,942.
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These companies say technological advances have allowed modern supersonic airplanes to be more fuel-efficient than the Concorde was.
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The tall machines spin at supersonic speeds to purify uranium, and governments typically classify their designs as top secret.
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China runs the world's longest high-speed rail line and is looking to build its own supersonic transport network.
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Shockwaves are beautiful The speed of sound (not the Coldplay song) is associated with sonic booms and supersonic jets.
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The answer would then be a supersonic combustion ramjet (SCRAMJET), which can operate between Mach 5 and Mach 15.
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The FAA banned supersonic flight in 1973 and has yet to reevaluate its position in the 45 years since.
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The latest digital motors and energy storage systems power the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer and cord-free vacuum line.
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In theory, the FAA is open to the idea of revising its blanket ban on supersonic flight over land.
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The noise issue raises a bigger philosophical question around supersonic flight: How much do we really value speed, anyway?
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The X-15 took NASA from supersonic to hypersonic, setting unofficial records for speed (Mach 6.7) and altitude 43,200 feet.
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Along with the ventilation at the base, the Supersonic also includes a power switch and a cool-air only button.
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I don't use a blow dryer — for obvious reasons — but Dyson's Supersonic does address my biggest blow dryer peeve: noise.
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Those tests would be the first since 1972 to attempt to deploy full-scale supersonic parachutes in the Earth's atmosphere.
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But supersonic parachutes will be given every chance to prove their viability for Mars because their efficiency cannot be beat.
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China runs the world's longest high-speed rail line and is itself looking to build its own supersonic transport network.
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The supersonic Concorde flights used to fly across the Atlantic in just over three hours, but stopped flying in 2003.
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Other Area 120 projects include personal stylist Tailor; learn to code app Grasshopper; emoji messenger Supersonic (which is closing down).
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A big problem with supersonic flight was that the sonic boom made it too loud to fly over populated areas.
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He's also an investor in Boom Supersonic, Optimizely, Cruise, Starsky Robotics, Instawork, Color Genomics, CaseText, WayUp and many other companies.
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If the rough-and-tumble, intentionally volume-blasted trailer is anything to go by, it'll be their Oasis: Supersonic moment.
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When the vehicle reaches about seven miles above the surface, the lander deploys a supersonic parachute to slow even further.
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The atmosphere will slow the lander significantly, but InSight will need to deploy a supersonic parachute to slow even further.
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The types of conventional weapons counted in the report are everything from tanks and supersonic aircraft to submarines and missiles.
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A supersonic aircraft can therefore afford only a small bypass ratio (1:1 in the case of many military jets).
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In February, Virgin Galactic took three test passengers to the edge of space and back in a supersonic test flight.
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So plan B is, we bring our product to market we fly supersonic over water, we fly subsonic over land.
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That messed up what would have been the normal development path, the normal go-to-market path for supersonic airplanes.
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The Dyson Supersonic is available in white and gray, as seen above, gray and magenta and brown, gray and magenta.
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The X-plane itself is a concept for the first plane using what NASA calls Quiet Supersonic Technology (or QueSST).
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Boom is a startup that wants to build supersonic planes, and they'll be getting manufacturing and design help from Virgin.
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The hand-gilded Supersonic hair dryers are available exclusively through Dyson's website, and they come with a red presentation case.
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The Supersonic hair dryer is even more overpriced than other Dyson products, but it is also an outstandingly good product.
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The airplane that could herald a new generation of supersonic passenger flight looks an awful lot like a fighter jet.
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Images of the mysterious missile on a modified Russian MiG-31, a supersonic near-space interceptor, appeared in mid-September.
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The Pentagon expects to spend $391 billion to develop the plane and buy 2,457 of the supersonic, stealthy new warplanes.
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The problem for Dyson may be that the Supersonic doesn't have that single, key feature to recommend it to consumers.
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Today there's an entire generation of humans alive who've never known a planet that offered supersonic transportation to the masses.
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With about $20 million over 17 months, the team at Lockheed Martin will work on developing Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST).
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The Bloodhound SSC vehicle, a supersonic car designed to beat the current land speed record of 763 miles per hour.
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Airbus has filed a patent for its own supersonic jet that can supposedly go four times the speed of sound.
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Theory indicates that scramjets (supersonic combustion ramjets) will eventually provide the highest service ceiling for aircraft at about 2628 km.
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The inability to turn a profit on supersonic flights between the U.S. and Europe is what ultimately killed the Concorde.
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And, China unveiled a suspected supersonic spy drone and a stealth attack drone during preparations for its National Day celebration.
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At the same time, engineers in the US and the Soviet Union were working on supersonic airliners of their own.
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The company has conducted three test flights over the past eight months that have pushed its supersonic plane progressively higher.
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Virgin Galactic says about 600 people have reserved tickets, priced between $200,000 and $250,000, to ride aboard its supersonic plane.
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I wanted the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer so badly that I was afraid to buy it for fear of disappointment.
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Now, U.S. startups are working to develop quieter and more fuel-efficient supersonic planes than Concorde, aimed at business travelers.
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"Supersonic flight will be a critical driver of human progress, and we believe Europe's citizens will embrace it," he said.
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Commercial supersonic flights ended in 2003 when the Concorde was laid to rest following a fatal crash and sagging demand.
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Supersonic transcribes the message in real time as your friend is speaking into their phone, which is a cool touch.
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The study used publicly available data and a modeling tool developed at Stanford to simulate a representative commercial supersonic plane.
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The Supersonic was touted as being lighter and faster at drying and less damaging than other models on the market.
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The growth of long-haul routes has even revived dreams of supersonic travel 15 years after the Concorde was canceled.
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Other new weapons included a supersonic reconnaissance drone, the WZ-8, and a wing-shaped stealthy drone called Sharp Sword.
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This is necessary to understand how the car behaves as it enters the transonic-stage and then supersonic speed levels.
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China already runs the world's longest high-speed rail line and is itself looking to build a supersonic transport network.
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Jonas asked the room which of the attendees had flown on the supersonic Concorde before it stopped flying in 2003.
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Fundamentally, the much higher velocity means a hypersonic aircraft would greatly reduce total travel times compared to supersonic, Whitesides replied.
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BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India and Russia, has developed what it calls the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile.
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Beijing boasts its own array of lethal arms, however, so it may be unfazed if neighbors acquire the supersonic device.
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The lander, which touched down on Mars via supersonic parachute in 2018, detected its first possible marsquake in April 2019.
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They can send fighter jets to supersonic speeds or airliners halfway around the globe with hundreds of passengers on board.
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Its supersonic shock wave flattened trees across North and South America, and its heat wave sparked incomprehensibly large forest fires.
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"It allow us to fly at supersonic speeds, taking advantage of an atmospheric phenomenology called 'mach cut-off,'" Vice said.
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The shockwaves seen in the photo create supersonic booms when they merge in the atmosphere, which breaks the sound barrier.
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He put his life on the line again as a military test pilot in the early days of supersonic flight.
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Supersonic air travel occurs when an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound, also referred to as Mach One.
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"I wish them all the best!" says longtime aviation consultant Robert W. Mann Jr. of the push for supersonic flight.
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Opposition quickly mounted, and in 1973 the FAA banned civilian aircraft from traveling at supersonic speeds over the United States.
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Schlieren imagery is a modern version of a 150-year-old German photography technique, used to visualize supersonic flow phenomena: A clear understanding of the location and strength of shock waves is essential for determining aerodynamic performance of aircraft flying at supersonic speed in different configurations, for improving performance as well as designing future jets.
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NASA is working to bring supersonic speeds to commercial flights in the United States, which could cut travel times in half.
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Lockheed Martin is building the jet for NASA to develop the technology needed for quiet supersonic aircraft for future commercial travel.
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They could have stretched it further, but with diminishing returns: "You can fly at supersonic speeds to extend totality," says Caspi.
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As worthy contenders emerged from the pack, Clark also dove into the literature on supersonic parachutes from NASA's Nixon-era heyday.
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"A few business jets are going to release a lot fewer emissions than fleets of large supersonic passengers planes," he said.
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Little wonder, then, that he is putting his effort behind the latest in a line of pretenders to the supersonic crown.
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To survive, InSight will autonomously go through dozens of programmed steps, such as deploying a supersonic parachute and igniting onboard thrusters.
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"We wanted to make sure the Supersonic carried every bit of quality one would expect of a Dyson product," says Crawford.
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But thanks to the Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer featuring the fastest motor around, this tutorial had me changing my tune.
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He sprays it all over, making sure each strand is covered, before blowing the hair smooth with a Dyson Supersonic dryer.
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A supersonic boom is the sound created by an object traveling through the air faster than the sound waves it creates.
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Both are also beefing-up of their defenses and in India's case, its defense industry, promoting heavily its supersonic BrahMos missile.
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In an interview for Flux I chatted with Blake, the founder and CEO of Denver-based Boom, a supersonic jet company.
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Even though I'm bald, I've had no trouble finding people – all women – willing to test drive the Dyson Supersonic with me.
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Through the 17-month $20 million award, the team is required to complete a preliminary design for Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST).
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The Bloodhound Supersonic Car is all but built, and it reached speeds of over 21 mph in a test last year.
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The Supersonic has a sensor inside that measures the heat of the air to keep it from ever getting too hot.
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The concept of nearly supersonic travel through hundreds of miles of vacuum-sealed tubes will always seem outlandish to most people.
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Simple and flexible, the Scorpion costs just $3,000 per hour to fly—a tenth as much as some heavier, supersonic fighters.
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"This thing will handle very much like a fighter jet," Boom Supersonic test pilot Bill "Doc" Shoemaker says with a grin.
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Dubai International and London Heathrow airports could see in excess of 300 supersonic flight operations per day, according to the study.
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The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers over the Korean peninsula earlier this month in a show of force.
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Spike believes that there will be demand for around 850 supersonic jets in the decade to 2035 - largely from commercial airlines.
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Airbus has also filed a patent for its own supersonic jet that can supposedly go four times the speed of sound.
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The Airwrap is the second product Dyson has made for the personal-care market, the first being the Supersonic hair dryer.
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NASA wants to build the next Concorde, bringing in a new age of supersonic jets that hopefully won't rupture your eardrum.
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Despite the skepticism of supersonic and hypersonic planes being commercially viable, there is a resurgence in interest in ultra-fast airliners.
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Together, Aérospatiale — a predecessor of Airbus Industries — and British Aircraft Corporation agreed to produce a four-engine, delta-wing supersonic airliner.
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On January 21, 1976, two Concordes — one from each airline — took off simultaneously to mark the plane's first supersonic passenger flight.
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Aerion, backed by Lockheed Martin Corp and GE, is considered by industry sources as the most advanced of the supersonic projects.
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Designed to help beginners learn and players look like all supersonic freakadelic on stage, they have quickly become commonplace if expensive.
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The story of our modern Santa Claus — magical bearded man, flying reindeer, supersonic sleigh travel — is nothing if not far-fetched.
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Stop by to try the latest version of the Supersonic, a matte black and purple machine ($5203), and enjoy free styling.
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This week, what will supersonic airplanes mean for climate change, and what will climate change mean for ships in the Arctic?
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Dyson introduced a new hair tool March 10 to join the lineup that includes the Supersonic hair dryer and Airwrap curler.
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Galactic has long said it could parlay the technology it developed for space tourism flights into delivering supersonic travel between cities.
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In the late 1950s, over a dozen companies built fighter jets called the Century Series that pushed boundaries of supersonic flight.
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Now that I've discovered the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, with all its attachments, all of our limits have faded to nothingness.
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Even with a lofty price tag of $493, the Supersonic became one of the most-loved hair dryers on the market.
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Among the various changes included within the bill, lawmakers have agreed to pave the way for the return of supersonic flight.
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Musk said he had come up with preliminary designs for a supersonic, electric plane that would take off and land vertically.
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The "gift edition" of the Dyson Supersonic includes the iron/fuchsia hair dryer with a bonus display stand for convenient storage.
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Supersonic airplane startup Boom has just completed a key step on the way to building a production supersonic passenger jet; the startup finished its wind tunnel testing, verifying its first two years of aerodynamic design work and setting the stage for building the airframe that will eventually become the basis of it first flight-ready aircraft.
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There are the supersonic booms that echoed through Oklahoma City in 1964 during Operation Bongo II, when the chamber of commerce volunteered the metropolis for a six-month experiment in how well its stoic citizenry could tolerate daily blasts from overhead jets in the forlorn hope that the city might become a hub for supersonic air travel.
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A NASA conception of a supersonic plane "Let's face it, the overwhelming majority of citizens are not millionaires," added van der Linden.
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The spacecraft will be hitting the molecules in Saturn's atmosphere at supersonic speeds, which will create a lot of friction and heat.
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The real trick is doing it without creating the eardrum-battering sonic boom, a key hurdle to reviving supersonic flight for civilians.
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The hyperloop as we know it, Musk clarified, would be reserved for longer, intercity voyages, where near-supersonic speeds are more valuable.
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Mag-lev—used by high-speed trains in Japan and elsewhere—reduces drag and the energy required to achieve near-supersonic speeds.
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We will continue to engage with other global carriers to maximize the value of JAL's investment and bring back supersonic commercial travel.
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"In some ways, building the airplane is the easy part," Peter Coen, the leader of NASA's civil supersonic program, told BuzzFeed News.
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Proponents point to market projections claiming hundreds of supersonic business jet sales in the decade after an overland flight ban is rescinded.
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One Denver-based startup's long-shot bid to move today's commercial jets beyond supersonic speeds just got a big injection of cash.
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A U.S. firm attempting to bring commercial supersonic air travel back will use a design package owned by a European aerospace giant.
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In 2015, the studio released Rocket League, an evolution to its 2008 game Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, to universal acclaim.
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In 1973 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), worried about loud sonic booms, banned civil aircraft from flying at supersonic speeds above America.
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It also has an arrangement with GE to develop a supersonic engine called Affinity, capable of operating efficiently both subsonically and supersonically.
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Also, in September of 2013, the Air Force and Boeing flew an unmanned F-16 at supersonic speeds for the first time.
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A U.S. Navy helmet worn by John Glenn during a record-breaking supersonic flight will be auctioned in Los Angeles next week.
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NASA's new series of bullet-shaped "X-planes" are the first step towards trying to resurrect the dream of supersonic air travel.
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Dyson has announced its second beauty gadget since the Supersonic, with a hair curler that relies on air rather than extreme temperatures.
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On the other hand vehicles at supersonic speeds and above generate a huge amount of heat, which makes them easy to spot.
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As much as 80 percent of its parts are the same for all three services, including engines, fuselage, weapons and supersonic capability.
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Reducing sonic booms to an acceptable level would allow overland flights, which should make the return of supersonic passenger travel more plausible.
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That's because the main goal was to see how the plane handled traveling at supersonic speeds with more weight in its rear.
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The rest of Virgin's vision: space hotels and a network of spaceports allowing supersonic travel anywhere on earth within a few hours.
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If successful, Boom would mark the first reintroduction of supersonic travel since the Concorde program was canceled following safety and cost concerns.
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When the Supersonic Hair Dryer launched in 2016, it completely changed the blowdryer category because it was both lightweight and damn powerful.
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A supersonic aircraft with this capability could be given approval to fly over land, which currently requires clearance in the United States.
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Variants of the T-38, a two-seat, twin-engine supersonic training jet, have been used by the U.S. military since 1961.
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The U.S. Defense Department expects to spend $391 billion in the coming decades to develop and buy 35,443 of the supersonic warplanes.
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But the promise of supersonic offers what Japan Airlines and at least several others could consider a more valuable luxury: travelers' time.
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The company wants the plane in the skies by 2023 but is first developing a smaller supersonic jet to test the technology.
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Scholl said the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator will fly in Denver late next year after passing a major performance and safety test.
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"We now have everything required to build history's first independently developed supersonic aircraft—the funding, technical design, and manufacturing partners," said Scholl.
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Boom is developing a 55-seat supersonic jet it hopes to sell to airlines and have in service by early next decade.
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For comparison, that's about twice as fast as the wistfully-remembered Concorde, the supersonic passenger plane which ended service entirely in 2003.
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One of the byproducts of supersonic flight is the sonic boom, which can be unpleasant or distressing to those on the ground.
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The air in front was compressed and violently heated, and it blasted a hole through the atmosphere, generating a supersonic shock wave.
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One stumbling block to trans-American routes is federal sonic boom regulation which has prevented supersonic travel over U.S. skies since 1973.
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If you're looking for a book with crazy plot twists and a supersonic narrative arc, this one may not be for you.
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Mr. Scholl says Boom's new planes will be far less polluting — not to mention quieter and more affordable — than previous supersonic jets.
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At least three companies in the United States are developing supersonic aircraft, years after the economically troubled Concorde was retired in 2003.
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Despite the allure of supersonic travel, Concorde had its wings clipped because of the noise it made going through the sound barrier.■
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Among the enthusiastic supporters of the supersonic revival is Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, which includes the Virgin Atlantic airline.
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And because supersonic aircraft operate at very high altitudes, their emissions are expected to harm the atmosphere even more than subsonic flights.
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Now, after fighting in the Gulf and Iraq wars, some of these 163-foot supersonic jets are speeding toward an autonomous future.
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Sure, a regular old blow dryer gets the job done, but it's nowhere near as cool as the Dyson Supersonic Blow Dryer.
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Supersonic hair dryer (refurbished) Dyson dipped its toes into the beauty industry and used its air technology to totally revolutionize hair tools.
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The supersonic bombers have previously flown to the peninsula in pairs as a show of force after past North Korean missile launches.
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The Soviet Union chose not to manufacture supersonic ship killers not because manufacturing them was impossible, but because they would be useless.
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The Soviet Union chose not to manufacture supersonic ship killers not because manufacturing them was impossible, but because they would be useless.
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This makes the Supersonic dryer lighter, quieter, and more ergonomic — plus it looks like something you'd find in a Star Trek movie.
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And some of them have walked away thinking that supersonic flight could work today — with just a few important (if difficult) tweaks.
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The broader hope is that if supersonic flight gains a foothold with business travelers, costs will eventually come down as technology improves.
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Using electromagnetic propulsion and mag-lev technology, it's designed to carry both cargo and human passengers at near supersonic speeds, Hyperloop One says.
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The company's executives have been traveling the world in recent months, selling its vision of near-supersonic travel to government officials and investors.
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But nearly all of them plan on using planes capable of flying to extreme altitudes and at supersonic speeds, not ground-based rockets.
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Tom Crawford, Dyson's head of product development for the Supersonic, showed off the fan to the press in a lower Manhattan hotel room.
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Then, the pro pulls each section taut as he blow dries it with the Dyson Supersonic dryer, with a narrow nozzle pointed downwards.
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Its supersonic subscale demonstrator jet, the XB-1, is still on track to fly its first test flight by the end of 2018.
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But the bewildering supersonic decelerator experience had taught him that there just haven't been enough real-world tests to build an effective model.
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But in the recent years, both NASA and smaller startups have been developing new supersonic planes that produce much, much softer sonic booms.
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You can pick up those pieces of technology and use them to create a small supersonic aircraft and skip the private jet part.
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But you can start with the thing that's the next level of development, which is a small supersonic aircraft for commercial airliner use.
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She also wondered if, using the Dyson Supersonic, she could avoid another keratin treatment (she has never told me how much they cost).
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So speedsters such as The Flash and Quicksilver are never going to be able to consume enough food to power their supersonic runs.
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The company's products have always come with steep price tags, and the $400 Supersonic—available come September in the US—is no different.
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Pishevar and Giegel have been traveling the world in recent months, selling its vision of near-supersonic travel to government officials and investors.
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Stung, China ordered from Russia two powerful destroyers armed with supersonic anti-ship missiles that could take out American carriers and other warships.
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"Going through a sound barrier you get these supersonic shockwaves and you could have two shockwaves interact that amplify the effect" Musk said.
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The U.S. has flown nuclear-capable supersonic bombers over South Korea in a show of force to North Korea, The Associated Press reports.
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Its heat shields protected it from the searing temperatures of atmospheric entry, and the module deployed its supersonic parachutes without any discernable problem.
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Aerion is a specialist in supersonic flight and according to its website, partnered with Airbus in 2014 to develop the new AS2 aircraft.
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Zunum's hybrid-electric plane system and other projects underway, like Boom's supersonic passenger jet plan, could radically change our trips to the airport.
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Boom Technology, an aviation startup, unveiled today a subscale prototype of a supersonic passenger jet that aims to be the next generation Concorde.
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And we heard that the Sound of a revolution in supersonic transport might not be as loud as it's cracked up to be.
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It will then use supersonic retro propulsion (or "many rockets firing at once") to lower the giant craft to the surface of Mars.
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Japan Airlines is betting at least $10 million to bring back supersonic commercial flight at speeds that top those of the doomed Concorde.
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The final Concorde flight was in October 2003, as a deadly crash and economic downturn hurt demand for seats aboard the supersonic jet.
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Virgin is the only known customer of the concept stage supersonic passenger airliner with the other four to be announced at special events.
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In fact, for a short window of time in the 1960s, America's supersonic, high-flying drones were already attempting reconnaissance flights over China.
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It is still unclear whether or not the space plane will ever take off, as supersonic flights have always been a challenge commercially.
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In fact, 16 years after its last flight for British Airways, the world is still without a viable form of supersonic passenger service.
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The Supersonic is armed with a specially-made digital motor with impeller blades controlled by magnets, similar to the way Dyson's fans work.
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Mojave, California (CNN Business)Virgin Galactic's supersonic space plane soared into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere Thursday for a milestone test flight.
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After a few seconds of coasting, VSS Unity's rocket engine will roar to life and drive the vehicle directly upward at supersonic speeds.
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The concern is China's supersonic J-20 could one day become a threat to the F-22 and the smaller F-35 fighters.
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China appeared to have unveiled a new supersonic spy drone during a weekend rehearsal for the National Day military parade on October 270.
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Vulcan has a pretty unique look in the Rocket League car lineup and its back wings fold out when it hits supersonic speed.
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SuperSonic was based on sahti, an ancient style of beer from Finland spiced with juniper berries that's seen a surge in popularity recently.
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Masaya Nakamura was a pioneer of a different era, in an industry that sheds its skin and develops new abilities with supersonic speed.
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This boom can be disruptive for people on the ground, so US law has long banned supersonic flights over the continental United States.
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The calculations showed that the flow started slow near the sun and accelerated as it moved farther away, passing Earth at supersonic speeds.
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While slashing the F.A.A.'s research budget, the Trump administration found almost $250 million to subsidize a new "low boom" demonstration supersonic aircraft.
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Drone deliveries to homes and offices have been widely publicized, while the effort to bring back supersonic air travel may be less known.
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The two US Air Force T-250 supersonic jets performed a test flight in California flying 260 feet apart to create interacting shockwaves.
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They played pivotal roles in World War II aircraft testing, supersonic flight research, and sending the Voyager probes to explore the solar system.
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Drawing inspiration from Modernism, Frank Gehry buildings and geishas alike, Mr. Abergel used a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer to create an unbending blowout.
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The Dyson AirWrap and SuperSonic hair dryer have been in high demand since their release, and finding a direct discount is nearly impossible.
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When he came to Lockheed Martin, in 1997, he was like a lot of young aerospace recruits, eager for speed and supersonic excitement.
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It can fly at supersonic speeds, is undetectable by radar, and one version can even take off and land vertically from aircraft carriers.
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The Tesla pod, while fast, isn't anywhere near the supersonic speeds that Musk thinks are possible in the (near) vacuum of his test tube.
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The cake, originally called Concorde, was created in 1969 by the French chef Gaston Lenôtre for the debut of the supersonic jet that year.
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The agency will then share its design expertise and test results with major U.S. plane manufacturers to encourage the development of the supersonic tech.
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The company has reportedly secured reservations for 25 of its next-gen supersonic jets and could wind up servicing Dubai and other international locations.
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The most recent age of commercial supersonic air travel began in 1976 with the Concorde , an aircraft operated by British Airways and Air France.
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Carol met Maria in the '80s, back when she was an intrepid human woman — not a supersonic superhero by the name of Captain Marvel.
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But Clark wasn't at JPL long until he realized that his plan to use inflatable decelerators instead of supersonic parachutes had been wildly optimistic.
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The last time a supersonic plane flew with commercial passengers was from New York to London — a trip just over three hours — in 553.
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"We are finally, and quite literally, accelerating supersonic into the future," wrote Samuel Hammond, of the libertarian Niskanen Center, about the new FAA direction.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Moscow is developing a new range of supersonic nuclear weapons that cannot be intercepted by antimissile systems.
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The U.S. Defense Department expects to spend some $4.35 billion over 22016 years to develop and buy 2,456 of the supersonic F-35 warplanes.
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In November, an F/A-18 fighter performed a series of supersonic dives over Galveston, Texas, at the behest of NASA, America's aerospace agency.
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But if that turns out not to be feasible, supersonic airlines will need to rely on transoceanic routes, just as they did with Concorde.
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When he wanted to fly to his remote mansion in a supersonic Concorde jet, he just ordered a runway long enough to accommodate one.
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Boom, one of the startups hoping to produce these jets, has forecast that up to 2,000 such supersonic aircraft will be built by 2035.
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Aikins, who was the skydiving consultant on Felix Baumgartner's famous supersonic freefall in 2012, has skydived around 18,000 times in his decades-long career.
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Britain scrambled Typhoon fighters at supersonic speed to intercept the Boeing 777-337 and safely escorted it to Stansted, which briefly closed its runway.
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We got this unholy alliance between aerospace protectionist interests and ostensibly environmental concerns and we banned supersonic travel in the US. Literally banned it.
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Unlike traditional blow-dryers, which house their motors and fans in the back, the Dyson Supersonic puts its tiny digital motor in the handle.
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Using your Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer — which accelerates drying while preventing extreme heat damage — stretch out your curls with the styling concentrator attachment.
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After the Korean War, Glenn remained in the military as a test pilot, flying supersonic aircraft and other state-of-the-art military models.
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A deflagration wave is subsonic, or slower than the speed of sound, whereas a detonation wave is supersonic, faster than the speed of sound.
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On March 21st, New Yorker food correspondent Helen Rosner tweeted a photo of her pointing a Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer at a raw chicken.
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Nevertheless, for this year's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham Bullen was commissioned to give a special performance to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Scum's release.
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As part of the arrangement, JAL also now has the option to purchase up to 20 Boom Supersonic aircraft once they become commercially available.
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Why now: It's been more than a decade since the Concorde was grounded, which was more about post 9/11 economics than supersonic technology.
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The Supersonic is expensive though, with a UK retail price of £299 (around $435), putting it at the higher-end of the beauty market.
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Unfortunately, Dyson's reputation for making expensive products also holds true with the Supersonic — and the dryer's price tag will certainly put some consumers off.
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We'll need a new landing propulsion in which a rocket engine descending at supersonic speeds is ignited in order to slow down for landing.
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Known as "low boom" flight demonstration aircraft, NASA hopes these quieter "X-planes" will pave the way for the reintroduction of commercial supersonic flights.
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The game's predecessor, the not-so-catchily-named Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, came out in 2008 and received middling reviews from critics.
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Supersonic passenger flights came to an end in 2003 after a downturn in air travel and a fatal crash in Paris three years earlier.
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"We are not shooting completely in the dark," says Peter Coen, head of commercial supersonic technology at NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Virginia.
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Artist Phil Collins flew on the Concord, a British supersonic jet, to play at both Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
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Since the Concorde, whose flights were stopped in 2003, no company has been able to find an economically viable model offering supersonic commercial aircraft.
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Similar to the Dyson SuperSonic Hair Dryer, the AirWrap uses hot air to coax your hair into curls and waves instead of extreme heat.
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China used its 70th-anniversary national parade on Tuesday to unveil a supersonic, nuclear-capable missile designed to test the US's missile-defense system.
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But as far back as 1960, the US was already working on a supersonic drone that it would eventually deploy to snoop over China.
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After allowing her hair to almost completely air dry, McMillan used the Dyson Supersonic blow dryer to touch up some pieces at the root.
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Musk talked about his idea for an electric, supersonic airplane, complete with a physics lesson on how it would accomplish vertical takeoff and landing.
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If you're old enough to remember the Concorde, then startup Boom's plans to bring supersonic flight back to commercial passenger air travel is huge.
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That there's nothing like Boom is not exactly a controversial opinion — there aren't a lot of companies out there trying to resurrect supersonic flight.
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Well, the home-care brand is making an unexpected leap into the beauty world with the upcoming launch of the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer.
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The United States flew two supersonic B-1B bombers as a show of force after Pyongyang fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday.
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Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of supersonic fighter jets such as the F-16, wants civilians to fly faster than the speed of sound, too.
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The race for supersonic speed comes at the expense of one man's family in this romantic drama directed by the British filmmaker David Lean.
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There's the now-iconic Supersonic Hair Dryer that made waves upon launching in 2016, followed by a sophomore hair tool, the Airwrap, in 2018.
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It follows the 2016 release of the Supersonic hair dryer, and 2018's Dyson Airwrap styler — both excellent products sold at eye-popping prices.
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Supersonic transports could eat into the airline industry's effort to reduce its footprint because the planes consume more fuel per passenger than existing airliners.
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Its Concorde pioneered supersonic travel and its introduction in 2000 of the first business-class seats that turned into flat beds revolutionised premium flying.
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The Supersonic hair dryer is engineered for fast drying while using intelligent heat control to protect your hair from damage and keep it shiny.
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It took 21 years to develop the technology that would allow air-to-air photography capturing the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic planes.
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It could be a ton of fun to have a portable box with the power to supply supersonic wi-fi to any compatible device.
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Sonic booms, which sound similar to an explosion or thunderclap, occur when objects such as supersonic aircraft travel faster than the speed of sound.
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With a stylish cut and quick-dry fabric, Reebok's Supersonic 2.0 fits in at the gym, at home, or the bar after a workout.
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When I asked NASA's Coen about the climate consequences of a world filled with supersonic jets, he agreed that it was a real concern.
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They don't just need billions of dollars, they have to prove to the vigilant Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that their supersonic planes are profoundly safe.
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Now, military supersonic flight is routine, and the mighty SR-71 Blackbird proved that cruising at over three times the speed of sound was easy.
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Clark's two-part concept became the foundation for the $200 million Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project, which he was tapped to lead as principal investigator.
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Like the Airwrap, the Supersonic scans itself 20 times per second to ensure that it's not going over the speed and heat setting you chose.
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The 50,000 residents of Galveston, Texas, will this month find themselves the subjects of a psychology experiment that could determine the future of supersonic airplanes.
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The experiment, meant to gauge the public's acceptance of supersonic flights, found that rather than getting used to the booms, residents complained more over time.
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As you can see there's a long way to go before a quiet supersonic jet is even built and tested, but the work is underway.
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Aerion Supersonic, which is backed by Boeing Co, and Spike Aerospace have said their ultra-fast business jets will meet noise levels for subsonic planes.
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With start-ups trying to build commercially viable supersonic jets, Mr Dourado thinks the FAA should replace the ban with a maximum permissible noise level.
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Boom has introduced an idea for a supersonic flight that will take passengers from New York to London in about three hours and 22003 minutes.
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For 27 years, supersonic travel was a reality, creating a bridge between Europe and the U.S. that led to a bright future for commercial flight.
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The US Air Force, one of the F-35's main proponents, is understandably optimistic about the single-engine, supersonic fighter—at least in public.
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Among other stocks, Boeing Co shares rose 7.563 percent after the aerospace company said it made a significant investment in supersonic business jet developer Aerion.
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Musk thinks his electric airplane would be better than current planes, capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and supersonic flight at high altitudes.
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The triumph of it as a passenger aircraft—and the commercial failure of supersonic jets such as Concorde—came as a pleasant surprise for Boeing.
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Which is why this flat twist-out routine is a godsend during the week, especially when done with our trusty Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer.
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The trouble is, something else has also refused to go away: the shock wave known as a sonic boom that emanates from a supersonic aircraft.
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Parts of North America and Western Europe could experience sonic booms every five minutes if supersonic jets become commercialized, a new study said on Wednesday.
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Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP The likelihood that you will someday zoom across the country at supersonic speeds through a tube just got a lot smaller.
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If local and community vigilance had not been as strong as it is, how could humanity have safely utilized such technology as supersonic air travel?
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Like the Supersonic, the Airwrap uses a tiny version of the company's V9 motor that run at 110,000 rpm's to blast air at high speed.
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The Defense Department expects to spend $391 billion to develop the plane and buy 2,443 of the supersonic, stealthy new warplanes in the coming decades.
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The stolen information includes secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile to be used by submarines by 2020, American officials told the Post.
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This NASA plane wants to gather data about noise effect on communities that some hope will help remove current restrictions to overland commercial supersonic flight.
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The Belgian Air Force is policing Baltic airspace as of September 222; on Tuesday, it intercepted two Russian Tu-210 Blackjack supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers.
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Virgin Galactic took another step on Tuesday toward beginning commercial operations with its latest test flight, only 54 days after its last launch went supersonic.
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The weapon was an unmanned ramjet loaded with nuclear weapons that, once launched, would fly around for as long as it could at supersonic speeds.
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The United States, echoing industry's demand, has called for new standards that reflect "fundamental differences" between subsonic and supersonic jets, according to a second document.
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What the team uncovered about hair health, how your strands react to stress, and how heat-styling affects them led it to create the Supersonic.
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A dryer like the Dyson Supersonic ($400) dries the hair faster with lower heat and is the tool Mr. Gray often uses on gray hair.
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When a plane is flying at supersonic speeds, sound from its engines piles up into a cone-shaped shock wave known as a sonic boom.
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That same day, Dyson, the company known for its Supersonic hair dryer (and vacuums, fans and other household appliances), will open a Dyson Demo flagship.
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Boeing will provide engineering, manufacturing and flight testing services for Aerion's $120 million supersonic business jet, which is slated for its first flight in 2023.
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The first African-American to train as an astronaut with NASA, he died in a supersonic jet crash in 1967, at the age of 32.
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But unlike the Supersonic, whose features are familiar to anyone who has used a standard blow dryer, the Airwrap requires a certain measure of coaching.
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The corona is where supersonic releases of energy, called solar winds, burst forth and disrupt activities on Earth, from farmers' fields to electric power grids.
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Although the aircraft itself does not break the sound barrier, she found, some of the air rushing around the curves of its wings goes supersonic.
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None of these times are close to those achieved by Concorde, a supersonic commercial airliner operated by BA and Air France from 1976 until 2003.
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NEW YORK CITY – Supersonic air travel is only a few years from returning if a small U.S. company succeeds in developing its next-generation jet.
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Hours after the missile test, two United States supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers conducted a drill over South Korea, the second such mission this month.
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He favored development of a supersonic transport plane and criticized NASA for relying too heavily on space shuttles as launching vehicles instead of expendable rockets.
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A secretive team of US military technologists has tested a new kind of tiny smart drone that can deploy in swarms from supersonic jet fighters.
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Ever since British Airways retired its money-losing supersonic Concorde in 2003, airlines have generally stuck to top speeds of around 615 miles per hour.
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All of the startups aiming to fly supersonic in the next decade have touted low emissions as a goal, but it simply takes more fuel to go faster, raising critical questions: An analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation suggests the proposed supersonic business jets would emit 40% more nitrous oxide and 70% more carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas driving global warming, than subsonic ones.
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A supersonic UFO shaped like a Tic Tac stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier for days before vanishing into thin air, according to a bombshell Pentagon report.
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Perhaps the most startling thing about the Supersonic is that, according to Dyson, it blows air at least twice as fast as the average blow dryer.
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In a deal announced today, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies will contribute some of the know-how needed to successfully fling people through tubes at near-supersonic speed.
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Emily Jones—who works in business development at Boom Supersonic—has been using Apply To Date for the past few weeks and hasn't encountered any issues.
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Levitation is key to a working Hyperloop, since the concept's theoretically borderline supersonic speeds are based on the idea of eliminating as much friction as possible.
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Because that atmosphere is 99 percent thinner than Earth's, Viking's engineers knew their spacecraft would be plummeting at supersonic speeds as they neared the planet's surface.
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You've seen this design before: The bladeless design that keeps Dyson's fans and air purifiers so quiet is the same technology in the iconic Dyson Supersonic.
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And he was a celebrity already, having just made America's first transcontinental supersonic flight, in a record three hours 290 minutes, testing a new fighter aircraft.
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The U.S. Defense Department expects to spend $220 billion to develop the plane and buy 2,443 of the supersonic, stealthy new warplanes in the coming decades.
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Virgin Hyperloop One announced today that it is officially adding India to the list of nations that have expressed interest in near-supersonic, tube-based travel.
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But apart from Concorde, a supersonic aircraft in which the delta-winged arrangement was imposed by the laws of physics, such changes have never got anywhere.
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Unlike everything else discussed in this report—even the return of supersonic passenger aircraft—urban air mobility has the potential to change the way society works.
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For a professional looking for an excellent hair dryer that can produce excellent results in record time, I think the Dyson Supersonic is a no-brainer.
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It was originally just meant to be a cargo-carrying jet; supersonic airliners were thought to be the future of aviation when the 747 was born.
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The U.S. Defense Department expects to spend $379 billion to develop the plane and buy 2,457 of the supersonic, stealthy new warplanes, in the coming decades.
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To get to the surface safely, InSight had to autonomously deploy a supersonic parachute, gather radar measurements, and ignite its thrusters all at the right time.
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Along with Aerion's AS2, these plans are looking to bring back the luxuries of traveling on board the supersonic Concorde, which was retired 15 years ago.
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"Current supersonic sales targets, paired with ongoing efforts to lift overland flight bans, imply severe environmental consequences," said ICCT's Dan Rutherford, lead author of the study.
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Built in southern Spain and painted in shimmering white, gray, black, red, and blue, the "Quintero One" could someday whoosh between cities at near-supersonic speeds.
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Image: NASAData collected during the AirBOS experiment will help NASA engineers to develop the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane, or simply X-59 QueSST.
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Other aircrafts are also tested at the site later, including the OXCART (a supersonic reconnaissance A-12 aircraft) and the F-117 stealth ground attack jet.
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If Boom can pull off its vision, its vehicles could be the first commercial supersonic jets to enter service after the Concorde was retired in 2003.
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Aerion, chaired by billionaire Robert Bass, is one of a new breed of developers pursuing supersonic jet projects 20.95 years after the retirement of the Concorde.
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It follows Dyson's 5503 Supersonic hair dryer, which previous Mashable reviewers really did find to be a marked improvement over the previously undisrupted traditional blowdryer market.
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Schiaparelli then deployed a supersonic parachute to further reduce its speed and then ignited a series of small thrusters to control the rest of its fall.
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If you haven't already booked your ticket to see Oasis: Supersonic at the movies tonight—this is a one night only thing—then you're a numpty.
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The firm was an investor in a larger post-seed round for Boom Technology, a frontier startup looking to build supersonic jets to serve the masses.
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This included a new prototype missile that "can reach any point in the world" and a supersonic weapon that cannot be tracked by anti-missile systems.
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Under the agreement, it will help "refine" the aircraft's design and help determine what it would be like for passengers on board an eventual supersonic jet.
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Increased cost per seat, high development costs, expensive construction materials and increased weight are all seen as additional hurdles to the problem of a supersonic travel.
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The U.S. Defense Department expects to spend $391 billion to develop the plane and buy 2,443 of the supersonic, stealthy new warplanes, in the coming decades.
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But as anyone who's been following NASA's ambitions for supersonic plane travel can tell you, this concept is wildly expensive — we're talking $247.5 million-contract expensive.
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New companies like Boom Supersonic are trying to make use of the technology for transoceanic routes, with backing from investors like Richard Branson and Japan Airlines.
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Boom unveiled the design of the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator last November, and completed wind tunnel testing on a scaled down physical model earlier this year.
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"When it comes to supersonic know-how, Lockheed Martin's capabilities are well known, and, in fact, legendary," said Robert Bass, Aerion's billionaire backer and its chairman.
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Earlier this month, Japan Airlines committed $10 million to Denver-based Boom Supersonic and said it had options to buy 20 of the start-up's planes.
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Another major innovation: Unlike the Supersonic and Airwrap, the Corrale can be used cordless, so you don't need to worry about cables getting in the way.
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During the in-flight abort test Sunday, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket shut off its engines after climbing more than 10 miles above ground at supersonic speeds.
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Galactic (SPCEU), which recently made its stock market debut, is now planning to launch the first paying customers on its supersonic space plane by mid-2020.
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Ms. Zawistowski is a supersonic force of nature in the crossword solving world as well as a powerlifter, a scientifically improbable combination of speed and strength.
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Even to this day, the Boeing 747 continues to outlive most of its rivals from the time period, including the supersonic and similarly iconic European Concorde.
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Those who have been coveting a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer or Airwrap, get excited — this is your big chance to finally get one with added savings.
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The legislation states that by the end of 2019, rules governing a new application process should be in place for companies looking to develop supersonic aircraft.
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The U.S. Defense Department expects to spend $391 billion to develop the plane and buy 2,35 of the supersonic, stealthy new warplanes, in the coming decades.
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With the Supersonic 2.0, the Adidas subsidiary takes a stab at offering performance fabric designed to wick sweat, dry quickly, and look good in the process.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "An aerospace company is reportedly considering building a supersonic jet that can travel from New York to London in four and a half hours.
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The F-35 is the first aircraft to combine radar-evading stealth technology with supersonic speeds and the ability to conduct short takeoffs and vertical landings.
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She's flown supersonic at NASA's Johnson Space Center and has taken two trips on the "vomit comet" to perform research in microgravity (nope, she didn't even puke).
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This aircraft will allow NASA to fly supersonic while producing shockwaves in such a way that they produce "only a quiet rumble" rather than a sonic boom.
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" Then, he says, he blew her hair smooth using the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer to create a "glamorous finish, so the hair looked super glossy and healthy.
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Lockheed answered with its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, which is designed to cruise at 55,000 feet and reach speeds of about 940 miles per hour.
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Report: China developing supersonic, stealth drone Experts say China's 'dark sword' drone could be ready for flight soon; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon.
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He flew a Vought F-773 Crusader from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes -- the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed.
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Impressed by the DGB's reliability in high-altitude environments, NASA hired Eckstrom to work on its first series of supersonic-parachute tests, the Planetary Entry Parachute Program.
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Aerion touts flights from New York to Shanghai and Brisbane, but supersonic flights across the Pacific are pointless for business travelers, Davies noted in his 593 analysis.
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A thousand miles of "virgin hair" was purchased for testing the $400 Supersonic, four years were dedicated to development, and total R&D spending topped $72 million.
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An information panel alongside a model of the new missile said the CM-401 was a "high supersonic" ballistic missile which had a trajectory reaching near space.
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Musk congratulated WARR in a tweet on Sunday, adding in a subsequent tweet that it may be possible to reach "supersonic" speeds in the test Hyperloop tube.
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"Your hair needs more texture when you're a brunette versus when your hair is blonde," Cunha told PEOPLE at the Dyson Supersonic hairdryer west coast launch event.
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If you're ready to save $80 on the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, all you have to do is sign up for a free My Best Buy membership.
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It's not just a fun way to look through the Supersonic (a feat impossible with other hair dryers), that design is what creates the air multiplier effect.
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The Dyson Supersonic includes all the controls you'd expect, including temperature and fan speed, which are controlled through tiny buttons along the inside edge of the multiplier.
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The cord does not retract into the Supersonic body (as the cords do on many traditional hair dryers) and it's too thick to wrap around the device.
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On October 15, the Bloodhound supersonic car will attempt to smash the existing mark of 763 mph (1,20163 km/h) to over 800 mph (1,287 km/h).
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The $500 price tag makes this gilded hair dryer only $100 more than the original model, and $50 more than the professional, "re-engineered" Supersonic for stylists.
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The scramjet uses the speed of the vehicle to compress air for combustion within its engine, allowing the gas flow to remain supersonic the whole way through.
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WHEN a British Airways Concorde travelling from New York touched down at Heathrow airport, in London, on October 24th 2003, supersonic passenger travel came to an end.
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Other companies like Boom and even NASA are working to introduce cheaper supersonic flight routes — so the way we fly could be much different in the future.
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Image: NASAAn air-to-air imaging technology developed by NASA has resulted in the first images ever taken of interacting shockwaves produced by in-flight supersonic jets.
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Virgin Galactic pilots Dave Mackay and Mike Masucci flew the aerospace company's fifth-supersonic powered test flight — with a working passenger aboard, chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses.
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It had shown that supersonic passenger travel was very much possible, and proven easier to handle in the air and on the ground than had been theorized.
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is creating magnetic technology that will transport passengers in levitating capsules through steel tubes at a supersonic speed of 760 miles per hour.
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Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace firm, has been commissioned by NASA to carry out a $20m design of a small "low-boom" experimental supersonic aircraft (illustrated above).
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Tweaking the design of a supersonic jet could modify the shape of these shock waves so that they produce a less sudden and intense sound (see article).
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Russia's deployment included two Tu-160 nuclear-capable supersonic bombers, as well as a heavy-lift An-124 Ruslan cargo plane and an Il-62 passenger plane.
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As charged particles (called the solar wind) approach this invisible shield at supersonic speeds, they're heated up and slowed down, producing something akin to a sonic boom.
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Because what good is more accessible supersonic or hypersonic commercial travel if we can't get across town and out to the airport in less than 5 hours?
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