Hypersonic Weapons Will Tackle Fleeting Targets

An installment of the 1938 serial “Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars” opened with the narrator announcing the eponymous hero was in his spaceship flying at the “incredible speed of at least 1,200 miles per hour!” At a time when the fastest aircraft had not yet reached 450 mph, the notion of flying at such...

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