re: #303 SixDegrees

True. It’s interesting, though, that the erroneous measurement propagated without any attempt to analyze or duplicate the experiment that obtained it for many years.

I’m just gonna toss something out here since it is outside of my field and I do not have any expertise in anything the speed of sound might be pertinent to. As I recall from my little kidhood, this was pretty much an exclusive realm of the US Air Force. I remember the first sonic booms as a little kid in OK near the Vance AF base where the experimental flights were being done. As such, peer review of the data was not possible, having to be based “on faith” as it were, due to the data not being reproduceable under other circumstances. I can se why data would be accepted without confirmation, since that confirmation wasn’t really possible.