i dont have any source other then my previous post, cuz this has been pretty secret information, but, it was that russians were developing the rechnology that will ionize the air about 2 meters in front of the plane thus decharging it before it hits the plane surface thus creating less friction and not melting all the special ceramic shielding... I heard that there were reports of Russian jets flying close to a border 16 times the speed of sound, and i beleive it was from some special on the science channel a long time ago...
but perhaps they were missusing information, the only real reference i found was this:
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/energia.htm
which claims that 1/8 scale of Buran (russian shuttle that got launched from an airplane) weighing at 1400 kg was making suborbital flights at mach 16, so i first dont claim that russians did not succede in their ionizer development, and the flights were suborbital, so i dont claim mach 16 on an airplane, but i here deem it is probably possible, cuz it worked in suborbit almost 20 years ago...
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