How is an airplane kept cool from the friction of air, while other objects entering Earth burn out due to this friction?

Quite simply, an airplane does not fly that fast. The fastest airplanes that have flown, such as the SR-71 Blackbird, fighter jets and even the Concorde, all faced friction-induced heating challenges at their nose cones and wing tips and had to use special heat resistant alloys locally.

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