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Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:23PM (#42856734)
> going much faster scales up the cost of flying at a rate that's hard to justify

Worse: drag in the transonic regime is generally worse than subsonic or supersonic.

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