Comments on: Can We Ever Fly Faster Than Sound?

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:31:50 +0000

The SR-71 Blackbird can go 3 times the speed of sound reaching speeds of 2,200 mph or 983.48800 m/s.

By: JMyint

JMyint — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:55:55 +0000

This is kind of surprising for C.B. Colby, most people at that time knew breaking the sound barrier in an aircraft was just an engineering problem because we had been breaking it for centuries in other ways. For those of you who don’t recognize the authors name he wrote a number of books on military, technology, and government aimed at elementary school children. I have a couple of his books on aviation I bought at a library sale.

By: asshat

asshat — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:34:59 +0000

this is another attemt to break a law of science that will never work. like the 4 minute mile, or reaching space.

By: Not So Fast » Warp speed

Not So Fast » Warp speed — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:54:54 +0000

[...] Someday people will look back and laugh at everyone that said we can’t go faster than light like we laugh at those people worried about the sound barrier. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:24:01 +0000

Why does the diagram on page one show a plane that looks like a me-262? Seems odd for a american magazine, in war time, to show a german design. I wonder how much the public even knew of the 262. Or is this a poor rendition of the British Gloster Meteor? Americas own jet was classified at the time.

By: Blah, Blah, Blahg » Can we ever fly faster than sound?

Blah, Blah, Blahg » Can we ever fly faster than sound? — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:33:43 +0000

[...] Lucky for me, someone wrote an article in the October 1944 issue of Popular Science taking a stance I can get on board with.Â Quite simply, the author says man cannot fly faster than the speed of sound.Â Reports to the contrary are, rather unsurprisingly, wrong.Â The entire Mach speed nomenclature exists merely to simplify detailing speeds which we *CAN* reach in these flying human death chambers. [...]