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The Awesome NASA Passenger Plane That Wants To Kill The Sonic Boom

NASA and its partners keep making progress in their quest to design a new passenger airliner that can fly supersonic without making a lot of noise, one of the main problems with the Concorde. And that progress looks space-age awesome.


Red Bull’s Chief Engineer Explains Felix Baumgartner’s Tech

Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking supersonic jump was an amazing feat of human endeavour. But getting Felix to break the speed of sound caused Red Bull Stratos technical project director Art Thompson some engineering headaches. Here’s how he solved them.


89-Year-Old Chuck Yeager Breaks Speed Of Sound 65 Years After His Historic Flight

This is unforgivable. With all the hoopla about yesterday’s crazy supersonic space jump, we didn’t celebrate yesterday’s 65th anniversary of the first man to go faster than the speed of sound, a true American hero: the now retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager.


Optus’ Supersonic $5.26 Million Fine Over Broadband Ads

This is the consumer watchdog’s biggest fine yet, and cheers to that. Seriously, is misleading customers standard practice at Optus? They’ve already been spanked over cap plans and the misuse of “unlimited”, and now they’ve been taken to task over those “Supersonic” and “Think Bigger” Ads.


Step Into This Tunnel And It’ll Probably Be The Last Thing You Ever Do

This is the supersonic wind tunnel located on Tennessee’s Arnold Air Force Base. It is used to test “advanced hypersonic technologies such as wave-rider-type vehicles, scramjets and transatmospheric space planes.” And it looks terrifying. Just look at the full-sized image.


Does WiMax Matter In A Phone?

We already know 4G data is going to be good in getting massloads of data to your laptops on the go, but how good is it for phones? For example, is Sprint’s upcoming HTC WiMax phone going to be useful?


HTC Incredible (Or Supersonic?) Glimpsed On Video

Both the Incredible and Supersonic have had their leaky moments, and due to the similarities it’s difficult to tell which model is shown here. I’m leaning towards the Incredible, which is meant to be the Verizon version of the Desire.


Leak: The HTC Supersonic Look Like A HD2, But Runs Android

One of the first questions I asked HTC when I saw the HD2 was “will it come with Android?” Don’t get me wrong, I’m a WinMo user from way back, but with that 4.3-inch screen, it’s perfect for Google’s OS.


20 Upcoming HTC Android Devices Mentioned In Leaked ROM

Nestled in the leaked Android 2.1 ROM, 20 new devices are mentioned by name—including those we knew of already (Dragon, Dream, Hero and Passion) but some new friends too, Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Espresso, Halo, HeroCT, HeroC, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Sapphire and Supersonic. Phew. [AndroidSpin via BGR]


The Supersonic Concorde Jet: Can We Go Back To 1979?

Many of our Gizmodo ’79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009′s ass: The Concorde Jet.


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