Overhead Informational Guides

- low speed
- medium speed
- high speed
- supersonic speed
- hypersonic speed

Regimes of Flight

Low Speed (subsonic)	* 0 - 100 mph * lightweight structures with small or no engine * kite, balloon, hang glider, airship
Medium Speed (subsonic)	* 100 - 350 mph * propeller types with straight, thick wings * Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Beechcraft
High Speed (subsonic)	* 350 - 700 mph * powerful propeller or jet-powered engines with thin, sweepback wings and a sleek fuselage * Boeing B-47, Vickers Viscount, Lear Jet, Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopter
Supersonic Speed	* 760 mph - Mach 5 * high-powered jet engines, sleek fuselage with super thin, swept-back or delta wings * Concorde, F-15 Eagle, Stealth
Hypersonic Speed	* Mach 5 - Mach 10 (3,500 - 7,000 mph) * rocket, re-entry capsules (Apollo), X-15, Space Shuttle, X-33, X-34 * high-powered rocket engines, short, thin wings, heat protection system

Low Speed

Medium Speed

High Speed

Supersonic Speed

Hypersonic Speed