Supersonic in a sentence as an adjective

So retro thrusters have to be able to fire when you are supersonic so they have to be very high thrust.

Now compute the effect of a supersonic shockwave that is curling in on itself.

"Is there an aeronautical engineer on board,"One of the top 5 questions you don't want to hear over the loudspeaker while flying on a supersonic jet.

The can turns the hearing-damaging bang of your gun into a merely very loud bang, but it does nothing about the supersonic crack your bullet makes.

He may use a ram-air electric jet at high speeds, and only use the power rail to get the vehicle to supersonic speeds where the ram-air engines are most efficient.

Instead of testing controlled hovering and precision landing it'll go up to supersonic speeds and potentially up to 90km altitude.

If someone posted an article about a new supersonic jet that takes you from New York to Sydney in under 4 hours, you could make a comment about being able to do the same by foot.

It's also a harder problem than intercontinental fiber optic networks and supersonic flight.

A meteorite would be hypersonic when first entering the atomsphere and then supersonic the rest of the way until maybe a few hundred meters before impact.

These motors can even fire supersonically which is important for Mars: in the higher altitudes of Mars the atmosphere is so thin that parachutes are completely pointless.

Sure if you could pull a vacuum around the launch facility you might get close, but consider that the typical rocket launch gets maximum dynamic pressure as it goes supersonic on its way out of the atmosphere.

My favourite was the supersonic hailstone story, fired as part of a hailstone ingestion test, but with uncertain results, the final resting place of said hailstone still being slightly obscure to this day. If anyone in the greater Bristol area got hit by a particularly hard snowball in the early sixties, the Filton test engineers are very sorry, and would like to apologise!However, it is often the little insights into the past that amuse one the most and stick in one’s mind.

Supersonic definitions

adjective

(of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air); "a supersonic bomber flies so fast that it must release its bombs while the target is still over the horizon"

adjective

having frequencies above those of audible sound

See also: ultrasonic