Crossword clues for hypersonic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hypersonic \hy`per*son"ic\, n. [Pref. hyper- + sonic.] (Aeronautics) Pertaining to or moving at a speed greatly in excess of the speed of sound, usually meaning greater than mach 5. All speeds in excess of the speed of sound are supersonic, but to be hypersonic requires even higher speed.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a speed aviation English) equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, five times the speed of sound. 2 (context of a speed aeronautics English) far enough above the speed of sound as to cause significant differences in behaviour due to chemical reactions or disassociation of the air.
Wikipedia
Hypersonic speeds are highly supersonic.
Hypersonic may also refer to:
Usage examples of "hypersonic".
The short drive ended with him being carried onto a hypersonic aircraft, just big enough to accommodate Tochee at the back where a dozen seats had been removed.
Sahara complete, the hypersonic spy plane would make another pass over the Mideast - this pilot made the Mideast run at least once a week - then turn and head for a second tanker rendezvous west of the Azores on the way back to Nevada.
In the event of assault, one brief hypersonic tootle would fetch the immediate attention of several roaming packs of Bichons Frisés.
Greg saw the Event Horizon Pegasus hypersonic sink out of the wispy cloud band and skim across the reservoir towards him.
The elastic energy that can be stored in superfiber is enormous: If it were to suddenly break, the release would snap the cable back at almost hypersonic velocity, setting free enough energy to vaporize much of the cable, as well as anybody who stood nearby.
It may be a long time before we develop a glue that won’t char, peel, or embrittle when subjected to temperature variations of hypersonic aircraft.
No human could maintain the knife-edge tolerances needed for a hypersonic lifting aeropass, and so the guidance computer, with its crystalline logic and perfect mathematical calculations, had done the flying, comparing the predictions of the computer model with the performance of the actual vehicle a thousand times a second, adjusting in real time for variations in exospheric density and discrepancies between the computer model and the actual vehicle.
He had not been with her these past two days while she trained for hypersonic spaceplane duty at the Space Command HTS flight simulator at Little Rock, then went to Southern California for the launch.
Hypersonic aircraft could cross half the globe in two hours, but the human passengers they carried suffered from jet lag all the same.
One unmanned Agena-Three supply tanker carrying sixty thousand pounds of water from earth would be enough for satellite, shuttle, and hypersonic plane refuelings and full station operation for a month.
It would have led to a whole line of evolution that would have seen commercially viable hypersonic vehicles by the end of the sixtiesNew York to Tokyo in two or three hours, say, with the same payload and turnaround time of an old 747.