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Originally Posted by Zaps
What Peter Ward said.
An airframe section must be carefully designed and constructed to meet critical specific criteria before it is even capable of achieving and sustaining supersonic flight. In other words, atmospheric vehicles not designed to be supersonic cannot - and won't - become supersonic without very quickly falling apart.
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That's a given....that's why I was flumoxed and wondering about these speeds...it'd have to be groundspeed and certainly not airspeed.