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A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created whenever an object traveling through the air travels faster than the speed of sound. [1]

194 relations: Acoustics, Adolf Busemann, Aerion AS2, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aguila Ammunition, Airplane, Alcubierre drive, Anti-Concorde Project, Area rule, Arseny Mironov, Aurora (aircraft), Batfink, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus, Berlin-Köpenick transmitter, Boeing 2707, Boeing Sonic Cruiser, Boing (Africa), Boom, Boom Technology, Boom tube, Boomerang (countermeasure), Budweiser Rocket, Bullet, Bullwhip, Busemann's Biplane, Cherenkov detector, Cherenkov radiation, Christine Darden, Clan (TV channel), Coilgun, Concorde, Condon Committee, Conservation management of Kaziranga National Park, Convair B-58 Hustler, Counter-sniper tactics, Crunchiness, De Lisle carbine, Deer botfly, Dilbagh Singh, Dinosaur, Dinosaur behavior, Diplodocid, Disruptive innovation, Earthquake, Fabrice Ziolkowski, Fairey Delta 2, Flight, Fourth-generation jet fighter, Gas kinetics, General Dynamics F-16XL, ..., Ghostbusters (1986 TV series), Ground vibration boom, Ground vibrations, Gulfstream X-54, Gunshot, Hallowell Davis, Handley Page Victor, Heather Duby, Hidden Figures (book), History of Oklahoma City, Horace M. Trent, HyperMach SonicStar, Incubate (festival), Index of physics articles (S), Infrasound, Israeli–Lebanese conflict, JASON (advisory group), Jean-Pierre Petit, Jet set, Julie's Haircut, Kari Grandi, Kecksburg UFO incident, Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, Kelowna, Key West, Kiss Symphony: Alive IV, Lakeland Provincial Park and Recreation Area, Leonard Greene, List of Ben 10 aliens, List of cycles, List of Gantz chapters, List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters, List of NASA aircraft, List of programs broadcast by Boomerang, List of Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes, List of Teen Titans characters, Live It Up (Jennifer Lopez song), Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, Lockheed L-2000, Mach effect, Mach number, March 1962, Meteorite, Meteorite Men, Meteoroid, Meteorology, MGMT discography, Mickey Roker, Middlesbrough meteorite, ModNation Racers, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 1), MythBusters (2007 season), MythBusters (2009 season), Nelly Ben Hayoun, Next Generation Supersonic Transport, Nickelodeon (Germany), No. 77 Squadron RAAF, Nonlinear acoustics, Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, Not Afraid, Novato meteorite, Oklahoma City sonic boom tests, Operation Maharat II, Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport, Overpressure, Piston effect, Post-war aviation, Prandtl–Glauert singularity, Prandtl–Meyer expansion fan, Protests against Rodrigo Duterte, Quiet Spike, Raghda Khateb, Random Encounters, Reaction Engines A2, Red rain in Kerala, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech, SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport, Sandy and Dennys Murry, Sauropoda, Schleicher K 8, Scramjet, Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration, Shock wave, Siege of Varaždin Barracks, Silencer (firearms), Skyquake, Sonic, Sonic Arts Network, Sonic boom (disambiguation), Sonic the Comic, Sound barrier, Sound power, Speed of sound, Speedster (fiction), Stealth technology, StreetPass Mii Plaza, STS-115, Subsonic ammunition, Super-Kamiokande, Superman in film, Superman: Earth One, Supershear earthquake, Supersonic aircraft, Supersonic airfoils, Supersonic business jet, Supersonic speed, Supersonic transport, Sutter's Mill meteorite, Sydney Camm, Symphony No. 50 (Hovhaness), The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Thunder, Thunder City, Thunderclap (comics), Timeline for October following the September 11 attacks, Timeline of heavy metal and hard rock music, Timeline of military operations in the 2006 Lebanon War, Tissint meteorite, Toy balloon, Transitional ballistics, Ulterior (band), United States Air Force Plant 42, United States Air Force Thunderbirds, USS Noa (DD-841), V-2 rocket, Vapor cone, VSS Vintorez, Wake, Wallace D. Hayes, Whip, Whipcracking, Wind gradient, .22 Long Rifle, .45 ACP, 1966 in aviation, 2009 satellite collision, 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion, 2014 in aviation, 2015 in aviation, 2015 Kerala meteorite, 2016 in aviation, 2018 in Philippine television, 9×39mm. Expand index (144 more) »

Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

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Adolf Busemann

Adolf Busemann (20 April 1901 – 3 November 1986) was a German aerospace engineer and influential Nazi-era pioneer in aerodynamics, specialising in supersonic airflows.

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Aerion AS2

The Aerion AS2 is a supersonic business jet designed by Aerion Corporation in collaboration with Lockheed Martin.

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Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) is one of four mission directorates within NASA, the other three being the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, the Science Directorate, and the Space Technology Directorate.

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Aguila Ammunition

Aguila Ammunition is a Mexican manufacturer of firearms cartridges, under Industrias Tecnos of Cuernavaca.

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Airplane

An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.

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Alcubierre drive

The Alcubierre drive or Alcubierre warp drive (or Alcubierre metric, referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity as proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre, by which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel if a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.

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Anti-Concorde Project

The Anti-Concorde Project, founded by environmental activist Richard Wiggs, challenged the idea of supersonic passenger transport, and curtailed Concorde's commercial prospects.

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Area rule

The Whitcomb area rule, also called the transonic area rule, is a design technique used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic and supersonic speeds, particularly between Mach 0.75 and 1.2.

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Arseny Mironov

Arseny Mironov (born 25 December 1917) — scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing, one of the Gromov Flight Research Institute directors (1981-1985), doctor of technical science, professor, recipient of the Stalin Prize (1948) and USSR State Prize (1976), Zhukovsky Honorary Citizen.

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Aurora (aircraft)

Aurora was a rumored mid-1980s American reconnaissance aircraft.

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Batfink

Batfink is an animated television series, consisting of five-minute shorts, that first aired in April 1966.

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Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus

Bergen County Technical High School, also known as Bergen Tech, or more commonly "BT", is a four-year, tuition-free public magnet high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Berlin-Köpenick transmitter

Berlin-Köpenick transmitter was a transmission facility for broadcasting on medium wave, short wave, and VHF in Berlin-Köpenick, Germany, near the suburb of Uhlenhorst, after which it was occasionally named.

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Boeing 2707

The Boeing 2707 was the first American supersonic transport (SST) project.

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Boeing Sonic Cruiser

The Boeing Sonic Cruiser was a concept jet airliner with a delta wing-canard configuration.

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Boing (Africa)

Boing is an African channel operated by Turner Broadcasting System Europe that launched on May 30, 2015.

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Boom

Boom usually refers to an onomatopoeic word for the sound that an explosion makes.

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Boom Technology

Boom Technology is an American startup company designing a 55-passenger supersonic transport with of range, to be introduced in 2023.

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Boom tube

A boom tube, in DC Comics is a slang expression for a fictional extra-dimensional point-to-point Einstein-Rosen bridge (a form of teleportation) opened by a Mother Box used primarily by residents of New Genesis and Apokolips.

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Boomerang (countermeasure)

Boomerang is a gunfire locator developed by DARPA and BBN Technologies primarily for use against snipers.

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Budweiser Rocket

The Budweiser Rocket was an American 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine with an extra booster from a Sidewinder missile, that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land.

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Bullet

A bullet is a kinetic projectile and the component of firearm ammunition that is expelled from the gun barrel during shooting.

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Bullwhip

A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip, usually made of braided leather, designed as a tool for working with livestock.

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Busemann's Biplane

Busemann's Biplane is a conceptual airframe design invented by Adolf Busemann which avoids the formation of N-type shock waves and thus does not create a sonic boom.

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Cherenkov detector

A Cherenkov (Черенко́в) detector is a particle detector using the speed threshold for light production, the speed-dependent light output or the velocity-dependent light direction of Cherenkov radiation.

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Cherenkov radiation

Cherenkov radiation (sometimes spelled "Cerenkov") is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium.

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Christine Darden

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Clan (TV channel)

Clan is a children's TV channel from the Spanish public service broadcaster TVE.

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Coilgun

A coilgun or Gauss rifle is a type of projectile accelerator consisting of one or more coils used as electromagnets in the configuration of a linear motor that accelerate a ferromagnetic or conducting projectile to high velocity.

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Concorde

The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003.

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Condon Committee

The Condon Committee was the informal name of the University of Colorado UFO Project, a group funded by the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Colorado to study unidentified flying objects under the direction of physicist Edward Condon.

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Conservation management of Kaziranga National Park

Kaziranga National Park in India has a good conservation history, especially due to its efficient management policies.

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Convair B-58 Hustler

The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight.

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Counter-sniper tactics

The occurrence of sniper warfare has led to the evolution of counter-sniper tactics.

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Crunchiness

Crunchiness is the sensation of muffled grinding of a foodstuff.

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De Lisle carbine

The De Lisle carbine or De Lisle Commando carbine was a British firearm used during World War II that was designed with an integrated suppressor.

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Deer botfly

The name deer botfly (also deer nose bot) refers to any species in the genus Cephenemyia (sometimes misspelled as Cephenomyia or Cephenemya), within the family Oestridae.

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Dilbagh Singh

Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM (10 March 1926 – 9 February 2001) was the head of the Indian Air Force from 1981 to 1984, as Chief of the Air Staff.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosaur behavior

Dinosaur behavior is difficult for paleontologists to study since much of paleontology is dependent solely on the physical remains of ancient life.

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Diplodocid

Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae ("double beams"), are a group of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Disruptive innovation

In business, a Disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Fabrice Ziolkowski

Fabrice Ziolkowski (born January 28, 1954) is a French-American screenwriter, director, producer, and voice director, best known for scripting the Oscar-nominated feature animation film The Secret of Kells, writing the animated television series Gawayn, and directing and producing the avant-garde documentary film L.A.X..

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Fairey Delta 2

The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 (internal designation Type V within Fairey) was a British supersonic research aircraft produced by the Fairey Aviation Company in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for a specialised aircraft for conducting investigations into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds.

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Flight

Flight is the process by which an object moves through an atmosphere (or beyond it, as in the case of spaceflight) without contact with the surface.

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Fourth-generation jet fighter

Fourth-generation jet fighter is a general classification of jet fighters in service from approximately 1980 to the present and represent design concepts of the 1970s.

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Gas kinetics

Gas kinetics is a science in the branch of fluid dynamics, concerned with the study of motion of gases and its effects on physical systems.

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General Dynamics F-16XL

The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, with a cranked-arrow delta wing.

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Ghostbusters (1986 TV series)

Ghostbusters (later called Filmation's Ghostbusters) is a 1986 animated television series created by Filmation and distributed by Tribune Entertainment, based on Filmation's 1975 live-action television show The Ghost Busters.

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Ground vibration boom

Ground vibration boom is a phenomenon of very large increase in ground vibrations generated by high-speed railway trains travelling at speeds higher than the velocity of Rayleigh surface waves in the supporting ground.

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Ground vibrations

Ground vibrations is a technical term that is being used to describe mostly man-made vibrations of the ground, in contrast to natural vibrations of the Earth studied by seismology.

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Gulfstream X-54

The Gulfstream X-54 is a proposed research and demonstration aircraft, under development in the United States by Gulfstream Aerospace for NASA, that is planned for use in sonic boom and supersonic transport research.

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Gunshot

A gunshot is a single discharge of a gun, typically a man-portable firearm, producing a visible flash, a powerful and loud shockwave and often chemical gunshot residue.

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Hallowell Davis

Hallowell Davis (August 31, 1896 – August 22, 1992) was an American physiologist and otolaryngologist and researcher who did pioneering work on the physiology of hearing and the inner ear.

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Handley Page Victor

The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company, which served during the Cold War.

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Heather Duby

Heather Duby (born July 26, 1974 in Eugene, Oregon), is a female American singer/songwriter.

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Hidden Figures (book)

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Margot Lee Shetterly.

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History of Oklahoma City

The history of Oklahoma City refers to the history of city of Oklahoma City, and the land on which it developed.

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Horace M. Trent

Horace Maynard Trent (December 20, 1907 – December 16, 1964) was an American physicist best known for being part of the team that found that the crack of a bullwhip was actually a sonic boom.

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HyperMach SonicStar

SonicStar is a supersonic jet airliner project envisaged by HyperMach CEO Richard Lugg.

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Incubate (festival)

Incubate was an annual multidisciplinary arts festival held every September in Tilburg, Netherlands from 2005 to 2016.

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Index of physics articles (S)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Infrasound

Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low-frequency sound, is sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz or cycles per second, the "normal" limit of human hearing.

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Israeli–Lebanese conflict

The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, widely referred as the South Lebanon conflict, was a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various non-state militias acting from within Lebanon.

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JASON (advisory group)

JASON is an independent group of elite scientists which advises the United States government on matters of science and technology, mostly of a sensitive nature.

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Jean-Pierre Petit

Jean-Pierre Petit (born 5 April 1937, Choisy-le-Roi) is a French scientist, senior researcher at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an astrophysicist in Marseille Observatory, now retired.

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Jet set

In journalism, jet set was a term for an international social group of wealthy people who travelled the world to participate in social activities unavailable to ordinary people.

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Julie's Haircut

Julie's Haircut is an Italian neo-psychedelic rock group formed in Emilia between Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1994.

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Kari Grandi

Kari Grandi is a fictional character, the main protagonist in the Finnish television advertisements for Grandi, a brand of ready-to-drink juice.

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Kecksburg UFO incident

The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

Kecksburg is an unincorporated community in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

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Kelowna

Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Kiss Symphony: Alive IV

Symphony: Alive IV is a 2003 live album from the American rock band Kiss, performing with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO).

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Lakeland Provincial Park and Recreation Area

Lakeland Provincial Park and Lakeland Provincial Recreation Area are located east of Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada, in Lac La Biche County.

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Leonard Greene

Leonard Michael Greene (June 8, 1918 – November 30, 2006) was an American inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many of which are aviation-related.

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List of Ben 10 aliens

This is a list of aliens on Cartoon Network's Ben 10 franchise.

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List of cycles

This is a list of recurring cycles.

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List of Gantz chapters

The chapters of the Japanese manga Gantz are written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku, and have been published in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Young Jump since its issue 32 published in 2000.

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List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated television series based on the My Little Pony toyline, created by American toy and game manufacturer Hasbro.

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List of NASA aircraft

This is a list of NASA aircraft.

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List of programs broadcast by Boomerang

This is a list of television programs broadcast by Boomerang in the United States.

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List of Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes

The following is a list of individual episodes of the American animated television feature The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959–1964).

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List of Teen Titans characters

This is a list of the major and minor characters featured in and/or created specifically for the Cartoon Network and Kids' WB animated series '''Teen Titans''' and related properties.

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Live It Up (Jennifer Lopez song)

"Live It Up" is a song recorded by American singer Jennifer Lopez.

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Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is an American single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Lockheed L-2000

The Lockheed L-2000 was Lockheed Corporation's entry in a government-funded competition to build the United States' first supersonic transport (SST) in the 1960s.

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Mach effect

The Mach Effect can refer to.

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Mach number

In fluid dynamics, the Mach number (M or Ma) is a dimensionless quantity representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.

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March 1962

The following events occurred in March 1962.

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Meteorite

A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon.

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Meteorite Men

Meteorite Men is a documentary reality television series featuring two meteorite hunters.

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Meteoroid

A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.

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Meteorology

Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.

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MGMT discography

The discography of MGMT, a Connecticut-based indie rock group, consists of four studio albums, one compilation album, four extended plays, eleven singles (including one as a featured artist) and fourteen music videos.

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Mickey Roker

Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer.

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Middlesbrough meteorite

The Middlesbrough Meteorite fell in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England on March 14, 1881.

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ModNation Racers

ModNation Racers is a 2010 go-kart racing video game that is a spin-off of the Gran Turismo series of racing games, developed by United Front Games for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.

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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 1)

The first season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, developed by Lauren Faust, originally aired on The Hub in the United States.

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MythBusters (2007 season)

The cast of the television series MythBusters performs experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like.

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MythBusters (2009 season)

The cast of the television series MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like.

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Nelly Ben Hayoun

Nelly Ben Hayoun is a French designer.

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Next Generation Supersonic Transport

The Next Generation Supersonic Transport is a supersonic transport (SST) being developed by the Japanese Space Agency JAXA.

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Nickelodeon (Germany)

Nickelodeon Germany (Nickelodeon Deutschland), known on-air only as Nick, is a children's cable television network in Germany, part of the international Nickelodeon franchise.

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No. 77 Squadron RAAF

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Nonlinear acoustics

Nonlinear acoustics (NLA) is a branch of physics and acoustics dealing with sound waves of sufficiently large amplitudes.

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Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy penetration strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses; it is a flying wing design with a crew of two.

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Not Afraid

"Not Afraid" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his seventh studio album Recovery (2010).

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Novato meteorite

The Novato meteorite is an ordinary chondrite which entered the earth's atmosphere and broke up at 19:44 Pacific time on 17 October 2012.

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Oklahoma City sonic boom tests

The Oklahoma City sonic boom tests, also known as Operation Bongo II, refer to a controversial experiment in which 1,253 sonic booms were generated over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, over a period of six months in 1964.

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Operation Maharat II

Operation Maharat II (31 December 1972 – 5 February 1973) was a Royalist offensive against Pathet Lao insurrectionists during the Laotian Civil War.

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Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport

Ottawa/Macdonald–Cartier International Airport or Macdonald–Cartier International Airport (L'aéroport international Macdonald-Cartier in French), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is an international airport named after the Canadian statesmen and two of the "founding fathers of Canada", Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Étienne Cartier.

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Overpressure

Overpressure (or blast overpressure) is the pressure caused by a shock wave over and above normal atmospheric pressure.

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Piston effect

Piston effect refers to the forced-air flow inside a tunnel or shaft caused by moving vehicles.

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Post-war aviation

The period between 1945 and 1979 is sometimes called the post-war era or the period of the post-war political consensus.

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Prandtl–Glauert singularity

The Prandtl–Glauert singularity is the prediction by the Prandtl–Glauert transformation that infinite pressures would be experienced by an aircraft as it approaches the speed of sound.

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Prandtl–Meyer expansion fan

A supersonic expansion fan, technically known as Prandtl–Meyer expansion fan, is a centred expansion process that occurs when a supersonic flow turns around a convex corner.

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Protests against Rodrigo Duterte

The protests against Rodrigo Duterte, the 16th President of the Philippines, began on November 18, 2016 following the burial of late president Ferdinand Marcos, which Duterte supported.

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Quiet Spike

Quiet Spike was a collaborative program between Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to investigate the suppression of sonic booms.

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Raghda Khateb

Raghda Khateb (رغدة الخطيب, born 1978) is a Syrian actress and voice actress.

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Random Encounters

Random Encounters is an American musical web series co-created by AJ Pinkerton and Peter Srinivasan.

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Reaction Engines A2

The Reaction Engines Limited LAPCAT Configuration A2 (called the LAPCAT A2) is a design study for a hypersonic speed jet airliner intended to provide environmentally friendly, long range, high capacity commercial transportation.

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Red rain in Kerala

The Kerala red rain phenomenon was a blood rain event that occurred from 25 July to 23 September 2001, when heavy downpours of red-coloured rain fell sporadically on the southern Indian state of Kerala, staining clothes pink.

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Republic F-105 Thunderchief

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was a supersonic fighter-bomber used by the United States Air Force.

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Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech

The Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech" was an experimental turboprop aircraft derived from the F-84F Thunderstreak.

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SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport

The SAI Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) is a project by Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI) to develop a "virtually boomless" commercial supersonic business jet.

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Sandy and Dennys Murry

Alexander "Sandy" Murry and Dennys Murry are fictional characters in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, or the sauropods (sauro- + -pod, "lizard-footed"), are a clade of saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs.

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Schleicher K 8

The Schleicher K 8 (also known as Ka-8) is a single-seat glider designed by Rudolf Kaiser and built by the Alexander Schleicher company of Germany.

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Scramjet

A scramjet ("supersonic combustion ramjet") is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow.

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Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration

The NASA Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration, also known as the Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment, was a two-year program that used a Northrop F-5E with a modified fuselage to demonstrate that the aircraft's shock wave, and accompanying sonic boom, can be shaped, and thereby reduced.

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Shock wave

In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance.

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Siege of Varaždin Barracks

The Siege of Varaždin Barracks, also referred to locally as Varaždin's Days of War (Varaždinski dani rata), was the blockade and capture of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) barracks and other facilities in and around the city of Varaždin during the Croatian War of Independence.

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Silencer (firearms)

A silencer, suppressor, sound suppressor, or sound moderator is a device that reduces the sound intensity and muzzle flash when a firearm or air gun is discharged.

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Skyquake

Skyquakes or mystery booms are unexplained reports of a phenomenon that sounds like a cannon or a sonic boom coming from the sky.

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Sonic

Sonic or Sonics may refer to.

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Sonic Arts Network

Sonic Arts Network was a UK-based organisation, established in 1979, that aimed to enable both audiences and practitioners to engage with the art of sound through a programme of festivals, events, commissions and education projects.

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Sonic boom (disambiguation)

A sonic boom is a shockwave caused by an aircraft or other object travelling faster than sound.

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Sonic the Comic

Sonic the Comic, known to its many readers as STC, was a British children's comic published fortnightly by Fleetway Editions (the merged companies Fleetway and London Editions, which progressively became integrated with its parent company Egmont until it became known as Egmont Magazines) between 1993 and 2002.

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Sound barrier

The sound barrier or sonic barrier is a popular term for the sudden increase in aerodynamic drag and other effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when it approaches supersonic speed.

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Sound power

Sound power or acoustic power is the rate at which sound energy is emitted, reflected, transmitted or received, per unit time.

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Speed of sound

The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium.

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Speedster (fiction)

A speedster, also known as a speed man, is a character whose powers primarily relate to super-speed.

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Stealth technology

Stealth technology also termed low observable technology (LO technology) is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles and satellites to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods.

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StreetPass Mii Plaza

is an application which comes pre-loaded on all Nintendo 3DS systems.

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STS-115

STS-115 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Atlantis''.

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Subsonic ammunition

Subsonic ammunition is ammunition designed to operate at speeds below the speed of sound, which at standard conditions is.

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Super-Kamiokande

Super-Kamiokande (semi-abbreviation of full name: Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment, also abbreviated to Super-K or SK; スーパーカミオカンデ) is a neutrino observatory located under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

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Superman in film

The fictional character Superman, an American comic book superhero in DC Comics publications, has appeared in movies almost since his inception.

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Superman: Earth One

Superman: Earth One is a series of graphic novels written by J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated by Shane Davis.

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Supershear earthquake

A supershear earthquake is an earthquake in which the propagation of the rupture along the fault surface occurs at speeds in excess of the seismic shear wave (S-wave) velocity.

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Supersonic aircraft

A supersonic aircraft is an aircraft able to fly faster than the speed of sound (Mach number 1).

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Supersonic airfoils

A supersonic airfoil is a cross-section geometry designed to generate lift efficiently at supersonic speeds.

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Supersonic business jet

A supersonic business jet (SSBJ) would be a small business jet, intended to travel at speeds above Mach 1.0 (supersonic aircraft).

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Supersonic speed

Supersonic travel is a rate of travel of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).

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Supersonic transport

A supersonic transport (SST) is a civilian supersonic aircraft designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed of sound.

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Sutter's Mill meteorite

The Sutter's Mill meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up at about 07:51 Pacific time on April 22, 2012, with fragments landing in the United States.

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Sydney Camm

Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 189312 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters.

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Symphony No. 50 (Hovhaness)

Symphony No.

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The Cutie Mark Chronicles

"The Cutie Mark Chronicles" is the twenty-third episode of the first season of the Canadian-American animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

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Thunder

Thunder is the sound caused by lightning.

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Thunder City

Thunder City is an aircraft operating and maintenance company based at the Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Thunderclap (comics)

Thunderclap (Stanley George Johnson) is a fictional superhero created by Marvel UK a division of Marvel Comics.

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Timeline for October following the September 11 attacks

This article summarizes the events in October 2001 that were related to the September 11 attacks.

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Timeline of heavy metal and hard rock music

This is a timeline of heavy metal and hard rock, from its beginning in the early 1960s to the present time.

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Timeline of military operations in the 2006 Lebanon War

This is a timeline of Military operations of the 2006 Lebanon War.

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Tissint meteorite

The Tissint meteorite is a Martian meteorite that fell in Tata Province in the Guelmim-Es Semara region of Morocco on July 18, 2011.

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Toy balloon

A toy balloon or party balloon, is a small balloon mostly used for decoration, advertising and children's toys.

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Transitional ballistics

Transitional ballistics, also known as intermediate ballistics, at Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Accessed April 27, 2009 is the study of a projectile's behavior from the time it leaves the muzzle until the pressure behind the projectile is equalized, so it lies between internal ballistics and external ballistics.

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Ulterior (band)

Ulterior were an English post-punk band formed in 2006 and were based in London, signed to independent record label Disc Error Recordings.

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United States Air Force Plant 42

United States Air Force Plant 42 (Plant 42) is a classified United States Government aircraft manufacturing plant, used by the United States Air Force.

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United States Air Force Thunderbirds

The USAF Air Demonstration Squadron ("Thunderbirds") is the air demonstration squadron of the United States Air Force The Thunderbirds are assigned to the 57th Wing, and are based at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

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USS Noa (DD-841)

USS Noa (DD-841) was a of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Midshipman Loveman Noa (1878–1901).

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V-2 rocket

The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.

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Vapor cone

A vapor cone, also known as shock collar or shock egg, is a visible cloud of condensed water which can sometimes form around an object moving at high speed through moist air, for example an aircraft flying at transonic speeds.

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VSS Vintorez

The VSS (Винтовка Снайперская Специальная, Vintovka Snayperskaya Spetsialnaya or "Special Sniper Rifle", GRAU designation 6P29), also called the Vintorez ("thread cutter"/"tap"), is a suppressed sniper rifle that uses a heavy subsonic 9×39mm SP5 cartridge and armor-piercing SP6 cartridge.

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Wake

In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be.

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Wallace D. Hayes

Wallace D. Hayes (b. September 4, 1918 – d. March 2, 2001) was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists, whose numerous and fundamental contributions to the theories of supersonic and hypersonic flow and wave motion strongly influenced the design of aircraft at supersonic speeds and missiles at hypersonic speeds.

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Whip

A whip is a tool which was traditionally designed to strike animals or people to aid guidance or exert control over animals or other people, through pain compliance or fear of pain, although in some activities, whips can be used without use of pain, such as an additional pressure aid or visual directional cue in equestrianism.

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Whipcracking

Whipcracking is the act of producing a cracking sound through the use of a whip.

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Wind gradient

In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient or wind velocity gradient, or alternatively shear wind, is the vertical gradient of the mean horizontal wind speed in the lower atmosphere.

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.22 Long Rifle

The.22 Long Rifle (metric designation: 5.6×15mmR) cartridge is a long-established variety of.22 caliber rimfire ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common ammunition in the world today.

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.45 ACP

The.45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol), or.45 Auto (11.43×23mm) is a handgun cartridge designed by John Browning in 1905, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol.

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1966 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1966.

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2009 satellite collision

The accidental 2009 satellite collision was the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two artificial satellites - until then, all accidental hypervelocity collisions happened between a satellite and a piece of space debris.

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2010 Connecticut power plant explosion

The 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion occurred at the Kleen Energy Systems power station in Middletown, Connecticut, United States at 11:17 am EST on February 7, 2010.

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2014 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2014.

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2015 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2015.

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2015 Kerala meteorite

The 2015 Kerala fireball was a midair meteor blast that occurred during its descent to Earth over Kerala state in India on 27 February 2015.

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2016 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2016.

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2018 in Philippine television

This is a list of events taking place in 2018 related to Philippine television.

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9×39mm

The 9×39mm is a Soviet / Russian rifle cartridge and is the world’s longest developed modern bullet.

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References

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