October 14, 2026

Wednesday

Mach 1.05 and a Glamorous Boom

In today's journal

A rocket plane, a pilot who named his ride after his wife, and a sky that finally stopped pushing back. Almost eight decades later, the thunder still arrives after the thing that made it.

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