As of November 2012, a handful of candidates have lined up to fill Concorde's long-empty market space, from giants like Boeing and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS), the Airbus parent company, to up-and-comers like XCOR and HyperMach. Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic ...
Concorde: Mach 2.02, about 1,176 knots true airspeed. What is an airplane's average groundspeed? Finally, groundspeed is perhaps the most simple of the speeds. It's an aircraft's speed across the ground that gets adjusted for winds and altitude. For example, if an A321 has a true airs...
It is sucking air out of the inlet as fast as it can. So – the air can get out, just like the balloon, and the inlet and the aircraft attached to it is thrust in the opposite direction. That’s how an inlet generates thrust. While there is also thrust from the gas turbine and ...
In the "rd=DISKID" option, DISKID is a BSD device ID such as "disk0s1" for the first partition or "slice" of the disk0 device. The DISKID value can also be "*hd:NUMBER" where NUMBER is the partition of the drive to use as the boot volume. For example, if you would like to...