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- adverb In a
subsonic manner.
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Examples
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They use tools to sweep paths and even to draw pictures in the dirt and scratch themselves in inaccessible places, and they communicate subsonically at frequencies so low that humans cannot detect them without sophisticated equipment.
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Elephants communicate with each other subsonically, using low rumbles that can travel for miles underground.
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Radars can't see it very well, flying subsonically with precision accuracy.
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But keep in mind it has to fly subsonically until it gets out of the area of land.
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The F-22's "supercruise," that is, its ability to cruise supersonically, is unusably short in duration due to inadequate onboard fuel capacity -- so short that current Air Force training missions to exercise supercruising combat actually schedule one tanker refueling just before going supersonic and one more refueling before going home subsonically.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Winslow T. Wheeler 2012
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"The A2 is designed to leave Brussels international airport, fly quietly and subsonically out into the north Atlantic at mach 0.9 before reaching mach 5 across the North Pole and heading over the Pacific to Australia," he said.
WN.com - Articles related to South Asia businesses and tourism hit by air crisis 2010
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"The A2 is designed to leave Brussels international airport, fly quietly and subsonically out into the north Atlantic at mach 0.9 before reaching mach 5 across the North Pole and heading over the Pacific to Australia," he said.
WN.com - Articles related to South Asia businesses and tourism hit by air crisis 2010
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"The A2 is designed to leave Brussels international airport, fly quietly and subsonically out into the north Atlantic at mach 0.9 before reaching mach 5 across the North Pole and heading over the Pacific to Australia," he said.
WN.com - Articles related to South Asia businesses and tourism hit by air crisis 2010
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"The A2 is designed to leave Brussels international airport, fly quietly and subsonically out into the north Atlantic at mach 0.9 before reaching mach 5 across the North Pole and heading over the Pacific to Australia," he said.
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"The A2 is designed to leave Brussels international airport, fly quietly and subsonically out into the north Atlantic at mach 0.9 before reaching mach 5 across the North Pole and heading over the Pacific to Australia," he said.
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