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by TowerTall 407 days ago
Not slow, but not as fast as expected. I had expected something similar to the concordes ~mach 2 (~2160 km/h) or faster
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which tells us that supersonic in this case is true, but that perhaps after mach 1.3, you get the big boom no matter what fancy airodynamic shape you build in fact our current jets are called "transonic" as they are flirting with compresibilty effects on certain parts of the airframes.