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The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn celebrated in 1955 its centenary and as part of the celebrations a Conference on High Speed Aeronautics was organized. In this book are collected the lectures presented at the Conference. The list of lectures is impressive, whilst the lectures are all of great interest, many containing much that is new and fundamental in this ever‐expanding subject. As might be expected, most attention was focused on flight at very high Mach numbers and the aerodynamic and structural problems associated with kinetic heating effects, but that persistent source of problems, transonic flow, also received attention.