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...speech given in December 1992, NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin called high speed civil transport (HSCT) research NASA's first priority for the aeronautics industry. The proposed HSCT will carry 300 people over a range of 6000 miles at almost two and a half times the speed of sound (Mach...
Friday's game against Temple was a closer affair, with the score tied at five with only 10 minutes left in the mach. But then the Crimson went on a five-goal rampage to win the game...
...keying on that mach." Church said. "No team in our league should touch...
...existence of a secret U.S. spy plane they call Aurora. The speculation is over, says Jane's Defence Weekly. A definitive report prepared by the British military-affairs journal describes the stealthy craft as a triangular-shaped hypersonic jet fueled by liquid methane and capable of cruising at Mach 8 (5,280 m.p.h.), 2 1/2 times the world record. Jane's key piece of evidence: the report of an aircraft- recognition expert who actually saw the plane fly over a North Sea oil rig three years...
Today's world is measured in light-years and Mach speed, and sheathed in silicon and alloy. In the world of 999, on the eve of the first millennium, time moved at the speed of an oxcart or, more often, of a sturdy pair of legs, and the West was built largely on wood. Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable. Medieval chroniclers used the word desert to describe their arboreal world, a place on the cusp of civilization where werewolves and bogeymen still lunged...