At which speed is a plane traveling at hypersonic? What is the measurement used when a plane is said to travel at hypersonic? How does the air act at the nose of the plane? Would the nose and wing have to be razor sharp to cut the air? because the nose of the space shuttle seems blunt.
Hypersonic flight is generally any speeds between Mach 5 to Mach 10.  Although we set a speed delineation for the boundary between supersonic and hypersonic flows, the real boundary is where simple compressible flow aerodynamics using Mach and Reynolds numbers are no longer adequate to models the flow and multiple relationships between fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and heat transfer come into play.