[sigh] The Bell X-1 was the first aircraft to pass the speed of sound DURING SUSTAINED, LEVEL FLIGHT. Several hot-shot fighter pilots briefly exceeded Mach 1 during powered dives in aircraft not designed for supersonic flight. Some of them even lived to tell the tale.
On Nov 8, 2021, at 12:28 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Another example from NASM (Bell X-1):
[…] puvDI' BELL X-wa', DoDaj vItlh law' wab Do vItlh puS. Do patlhvam chavta'bogh muD Duj wa'DIch moj 'oH. […] the Bell X-1 became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Voragh
From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org <mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org>> On Behalf Of nIqolay Q
On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 11:46 AM Will Martin <willmartin2@mac.com <mailto:willmartin2@mac.com>> wrote: Yeah, but it gets really interesting when you try to say, “My ship is faster than your ship.”
We do have an example for that: nom leng Hun nom lengqu' lut Stories travel faster than a khrun - paq'batlh, p. 130-131, paq'raD, canto 11, line 4 _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org <mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org> http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org <http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org>