10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSONIC BARRIER»
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... in Pasadena, proved that this particular design could never endure supersonic
flight. Other designs can and will. This too has now been proved. The logical
design for the airplane assaulting the transonic barrier is as smooth as a torpedo.
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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
... phenomena that occur at velocities close to the speed of sound, roughly 0.8 to
1.2 times the speed of sound. transonic barrier see sonic barrier. transonic flight
Aviation, the movement of flight vehicles in the transonic range, characterized by
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Christopher G. Morris, 1992
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From Engineering Science to Big Science: The NACA and NASA ...
It is for the combined achievement of these three men in their successful
penetration of the transonic barrier that the Collier Trophy for 1947 has been
awarded. The Collier Trophy For Plight Beyond the Speed of Sound By
FREDERICK R.
It also has been suggested that planes might dive through the transonic barrier.
But the ground comes up very fast and a good many pilots have lost control of
their planes in inadvertent dives at considerably lower speeds than those we
must ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
trans-sonic (or transonic) barrier the sound barrier. [L sonus sound]
transubstantiate tran- sab- slan'shi-at, tran-, -:ab-, vf to change to another
substance. — adj transubstan tial — ad\ transubstan tially — n transubstantia tion
a change into ...
This is transonic barrier which conventional planes can approach only in dives.
The XS-1 can theoretically pierce zone, and some missiles have already.
Scientists use system of "Mach numbers" to express speed of plane in relation to
speed ...
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Frontiers of Space Exploration
Some of this work led to the development of the "throttlable" Curtiss- Wright
XLR25-CW-1 rocket engine, which later powered the Bell X-l and helped
overcome the transonic barrier, a range of speed between about .9 and 1 . 1
mach in 1947.
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The Bigger the Hair, the Closer to God: Unleashing the Cute, ...
... the tenors in the tummy and, to my horror, the tickling unloosed a toot loud
enough to tear through the transonic barrier. (Note the brilliant use of alliteration.
This is why I'm a writer.) Okay, okay! No more alliterations. And no more of those
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I suggest that these critical periods might be analogous to that of an airplane
passing through what the aeronautical engineers call the transonic barrier. As
you doubtless know, when planes or other moving objects pass from subsonic to
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Purpose of the Experiments Human flight is today faced with the transonic barrier
which blocks the way to safe progress in faster flight. It was decided that the risk
was too great to ask any test pilot to fly through the transonic barrier in the light of
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