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Old 17th Feb 2013, 19:42
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sevenstrokeroll
 
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you are technically exceeding MACH ONE when your airspeed indicator/machmeter is exceeding mach one.

you are going fast, congratulations...but the air around the plane )or speed probes( is not supersonic. you are reading .85 mach...you aren't making a sonic boom


if you are civilian. there are few ways to exceed mach one. concord, concordski, DC8 on one flight over edwards, and a few lucky ride alongs in military planes are it.
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