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  • Then he decided I needed some solid grounding in aviation history, and he stayed up half the night briefing me, by the light of a kerosene lamp, on the test-flight program, basic aerodynamics, and the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach.†   (source)
  • These arms could rotate the chair on all four axes, so when I was strapped in to it, the unit could flip, spin, or shake my body to create the sensation that I was falling, flying, or sitting behind the wheel of a nuclear-powered rocket sled hurtling at Mach 2 through a canyon on the fourth moon of Altair VI.†   (source)
  • Mach 15 jets?†   (source)
  • Mach 2 at least.†   (source)
  • As I enter the serene city of Guerneville, the 4-Runner truck goes from a Mach-like speed to that of a snail.†   (source)
  • [The pilot] is maintaining his present course at Mach .†   (source)
  • Dussel replied in his haughtiest tone, "Ich mach' das schon!"†   (source)
  • Root cartwheeled, righting himself at MACH 1.†   (source)
  • In this case it was a joy-riding teenage couple in a stolen EMV outside the traffic lanes, accelerating to Mach 1.†   (source)
  • So when they were racing their latest motorcycle software, holding wild rallies through Downtown at Mach 1, they didn't worry about engine capacity.†   (source)
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  • The Prince, Mach's my all-time fave.†   (source)
  • Besides, his YAK could only break Mach 1 in a dive.†   (source)
  • He heard a faint boom somewhere over the desert, the blast wave of mach speeds, and it thrilled him, moved him.†   (source)
  • The transport was a Globemaster C-17, flying at mach point seven, loaded with electronic surveillance equipment.†   (source)
  • Mach es tot!†   (source)
  • His speed held steady at mach 1.†   (source)
  • Don't think about hurtling towards the surface with a MACH 2 force trying to turn you inside-out.†   (source)
  • They can turn on a dime and come to a sudden stop, from Mach 2 to zero in less than a second.†   (source)
  • The fighters lept forward with a sudden double thrust and went quickly through Mach 1.†   (source)
  • He slid through the mach with a slight, thrilling tremor.†   (source)
  • He got a fierce thrill in pushing his F-11-F through the mach, and to the limit of its capability.†   (source)
  • Dimly superimposed on Reality, he can see the blackand-white figure of Y.T. sitting in front of him on the motorcycle; she reaches out for the throttle and both of them jerk forward and slam into the wall of a skyscraper at Mach 1.†   (source)
  • This plane goes Mach fifteen.†   (source)
  • I nodded my head to the sergeant's answer, then stated before thinking, "Excuse me, sir, but if I'm not mistaken, that's the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle: first strike, air superior fighter, capable of speeds in excess of Mach 2.†   (source)
  • Mach et tot!†   (source)
  • Whenever I'd steal a few moments for myself, I would step outside the sweltering dark green tent and scan the skies for the vintage American F-4 Phantom fighter jets as they raced overhead, showing off to the Egyptian pilots by either making diving passes or pushing their planes through Mach 1, shaking the ground like a volcanic eruption.†   (source)
  • Out over the trees he saw the residue of a jet contrail, the vapor losing its shape, beginning to spread and rib out, and he thought of the desert of course, the weapons range and flypaths and the way the condensation in the sky was the only sign of human endeavor as far as he could see, a city boy out camping, taking his soul struggle to the back-country, and the mach-2 booms came skyclapping down and the vapor formed an ice trail in the heavens.†   (source)
  • An all-weather interceptor, the F-14 has transoceanic range, Mach 2 speed, and a radar computer fire control system that can lock onto and attack six separate targets with long-range Phoenix air-to-air missiles.†   (source)
  • She ain't forgiven me: not mach.†   (source)
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