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High Speed Civil Transport, a Common card
The High Speed Civil Transport was the focus of the NASA High-Speed Research program, which intended to develop the technology needed to design and build a supersonic transport that would be environmentally acceptable and economically feasible.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 84
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,500
Ranked #2,923 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
High Speed Civil Transport quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the High Speed Civil Transport card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ started in 1990 and ended in 1999.
Answer
project. The project started in 1990 and ended in 1999. From the High Speed Civil Transport article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Radar warning receiver. Radar warning receiver 57 · Calcium acetate 54 · High Speed Civil Transport 51 · Boranes 46 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Radar warning receiver. Radar warning receiver 36,000 · Calcium acetate 22,000 · Curvature of Riemannian manifolds 13,000 · High Speed Civil Transport 9,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The aircraft was to be a future supersonic passenger aircraft, baselined to cruise at Mach 2.4, or more than twice the speed of sound.
- The project started in 1990 and ended in 1999.
- It was meant to cross the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean in half the time of a non-supersonic aircraft.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The High Speed Civil Transport article was read about 9,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get High Speed Civil Transport
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, High Speed Civil Transport (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA Glenn Research Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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