Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.

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The current cap of 60 puts pressure on military jet pilots to bail out of the armed services earlier than they might otherwise do because of a fear that their lifetime earnings with a carrier will be unnecessarily limited.

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The original Mercury spacesuits were a modified version of pressure suits that pilots wore in high-altitude jet aircraft.

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In 1999, a private jet carrying golfer Payne Stewart and five others crashed after apparently losing cabin pressure "for undetermined reasons" after takeoff from Florida, the National Transportation Safety Board found.

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