supersonic flight

collocation in English

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supersonic
adjective
uk
/ˌsuː.pəˈsɒn.ɪk/us
/ˌsuː.pɚˈsɑː.nɪk/
faster than the speed ...
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flight
noun
uk
/flaɪt/us
/flaɪt/
a journey in ...
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(Definition ofsupersonicandflightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These include stalling, high-lift devices including ' flexible ' variable-geometry systems, boundary-layer control, jet flaps, buffeting, supercritical aerofoils, wave drag insupersonicflight, blunt trailing edges and wing-body strakes.
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He said the difficulties of transsonic andsupersonicflightare largely overcome, or likely to be so in the near future.
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No firm scientific evidence is yet available of the effects ofsupersonicflighton environmental pollution.
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But this money has never been spent on building aircraft; it has been spent on investigatingsupersonicflight, which is quite a different matter.
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That has nothing to do withsupersonicflight.
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After all, military aircraft are already capable ofsupersonicflightand, by the late 1960s, we may have passenger services flying at supersonic speeds.
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Considerable theoretical work has been done in predicting the waveforms and the overpressures which can be expected fromsupersonicflight.
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A decision to bansupersonicflightover land would undoubtedly cost this country a very considerable amount of money in lost sales.
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First, there was the pretence that overlandsupersonicflightwould be accepted.
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They have been proved so by the success which has already followed thesupersonicflight.
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There is no reason to expect thatsupersonicflightwill have an effect on passengers any different from that of existing subsonic jets.
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Is it not desirable that some selected civil pilots should be able to have this experience ofsupersonicflightas soon as possible?
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It lacks thrust vectoring and it needs afterburners to sustainsupersonicflight.
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The matter will receive attention in the light of the likely developments of commercialsupersonicflightover the country.
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We are on the verge ofsupersonicflightin enormous aircraft carrying up to 200 passengers.
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Tests can tell us something aboutsupersonicflightover land.
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The clause also includes enabling powers to controlsupersonicflight, should it be required.
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I ought, perhaps, to say a word aboutsupersonicflight.
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It would not be in the public interest to dislose the state of our knowledge on transonic andsupersonicflight.
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They have clocked up over 550,000supersonicflighthours and done innumerable tests.
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