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Article: Fastest flight: eyewitness winner recounts record feat.(EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY CONTEST)(Cover story)
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- WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2009
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Sound travels superfast-more than 700 miles per hour to be exact! In 1961, Margaret Wells Osteen's grandfather saw a plane flying at six times the speed of sound!
Robert "Bob" White, the pilot, broke the world's record with his supersonic flight. Something that is supersonic is faster than the speed of sound. He traveled at 4,000 miles per hour. (The speed of sound gets slower the higher you go, so at White's top height, sound traveled at closer to 660 miles per hour.)
In her winning essay for the Eyewitness to History contest, Osteen wrote in detail about her grandfather's incredible experience. Her lively tone helped ...