Word: sonics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy's prize aircraft were on display: Phantom interceptors. Vigilante and Skyhawk attack bombers and Crusader fighters screamed overhead, booming in salute as they cracked the sonic barrier, hurling bombs neatly and precisely between the twin wakes of Enterprise and Forrestal...
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...Sonics and Suits. This possibility had not occurred to the majority of groundlings in the U.S. until last week, when a Supreme Court decision lowered a sonic boom of its own. Ruled the court in a 7-2 decision: local airport authorities are liable for damages if aircraft noise and vibration make life miserable for homeowners who live near an airport...
...people believe something new is happening. The only thing that happened is that they opened their windows." Even with the windows closed the year-round, the noise and nerve-numbing will continue-and get worse with the advent of supersonic commercial traffic. Nothing can be done to stop a sonic boom,* though the sound can be attenuated somewhat by flying at altitudes higher than...
Also smashed: countless windows and bric-a-brac, shattered by the continuous sonic boom that the plane created. One Air Force officer had predicted before the flight: "This ought to be good for an air speed of 1,300 m.p.h. and a ground speed of 13,000 broken windows...