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  2. 11 photos of America's fighter jets breaking the sound barrier

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    At a speed of about 767 miles per hour, depending on temperature and humidity, a moving object will break the sound barrier. It was not until World War II, when aircraft started to reach the ...

  3. Sound barrier - Wikipedia

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    The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when it approaches the speed of sound. When aircraft first approached the speed of sound, these effects were seen as constituting a barrier, making faster speeds very difficult or impossible.

  4. Supersonic aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The sound source has now broken through the sound speed barrier, and is traveling at 1.4 times the speed of sound, c (Mach 1.4). Because the source is moving faster than the sound waves it creates, it actually leads the advancing wavefront. The sound source will pass by a stationary observer before the observer actually hears the sound it creates.

  5. File:Yeager supersonic flight 1947.ogv - Wikipedia

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  6. Transatlantic airplanes are flying at the ‘speed of sound ...

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    The jet stream is making planes go around 200mph faster than average. - CNN However fast the flights this week, they have a little way to make up for some record-breaking flights pre-pandemic.

  7. Fighter jet breaking sound barrier caused 'blast' in Iran's ...

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    The cause of a large blast in Iran's Semnan province was determined as a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier on Monday, state media reported. Iranian state media had earlier said a large ...

  8. The Odyssey of Flight 33 - Wikipedia

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    The plane travels through a flash of light and severe turbulence; the captain wonders if they have gone through the sound barrier. There is no apparent damage to the aircraft. Still unable to contact anyone on the ground, and at the risk of potential collision with other aircraft, Farver finally decides to descend below the clouds.

  9. Mitsubishi T-2 - Wikipedia

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    The Mitsubishi T-2 was a supersonic jet trainer aircraft used by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Introduced in 1975, it was the first Japanese-designed aircraft to break the sound barrier. It was the basis of the Mitsubishi F-1 strike fighter. All T-2s were retired by 2006.