And now to Florida, where the Republican presidential campaign is moving at jet speed.
The fuselage and other parts of the airplane resemble the Piaggio Avanti that has become so successful as a jet-speed, affordable business aircraft.
Its device uses a high-speed jet at the tip of a catheter to wash out a clot and then vacuum it out.
With a fuel burn 30% less than a typical light jet and a cruise speed of more than 345 mph, the King Air 250 really zips along.
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It revealed only one of the Tornado GR4 pilots saw the glider and while taking avoiding action its effectiveness would have been marginal because of the speed the jet was going.
The jet's most economical speed, attained at altitudes between 38, 000 feet and 41, 000 feet, is an impressive 330 knots.
To cover that retreat, the company trumpeted its Sonic Cruiser, a futuristic 250-seater jet that would fly close to the speed of sound and clip hours off long-haul flights.
Better yet is the jet's 330-knot economy cruise speed, attained at altitudes between 38, 000 and 41, 000 feet.
Despite signs of a weakening U.S. economy, aerospace component manufacturers are working flat out, machining turbine compressor blades, high-speed bearings and other parts for jet-engine and aircraftmakers.
In a report in the journal Nature, US researchers say they have worked out how black holes emit jet streams of particles at close to light speed.
Flying at subsonic speed, the needle-nosed jet flew without passengers on Saturday from a military air base in Istres, near Marseille, and landed at Paris' Orly Airport.
It's also the place where Andy Green, a British fighter pilot, broke the land speed record in 1997 by driving a jet-powered car through the sound barrier to 763 mph.
These waves travel at the speed of sound, but when a jet travels at Mach 1 and above these waves merge into one single shock wave as they cannot get out of the way of each other quickly enough.
University of Michigan astronomy professor Hugh Aller, who worked on the project, told Reuters news agency that the process of accelerating the material to nearly the speed of light was similar to what happened in a jet engine.
Robert Duarte, an expert on some instruments in the jet, questioned evidence by defense attorneys who claimed the plane's speed was slower than what prosecutors contend.
Cessna began development of the Citation X in 1990 and after its introduction in 1996, it quickly set numerous speed records to claim the title of the fastest operational business jet in the world.
"You probably would not damage your bumper if you hit a car at this speed, " said landing-system engineer Devin Kipp at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who helped design the parachute.
'' Two seconds later, just before we would have stalled and started a death spiral to earth, the jet's control stick moved forward, and the airplane began to pick up speed, averting the stall.
The nerves that activate a squid's jet-propelled escape mechanism have particularly big axons, allowing signals to travel at great speed.
"An F1 car is like a fighter jet the technology, the G-force, the quickness, " said Scott Speed, the last American driver to compete in F1 (2007), who has since competed in Nascar.
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