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A combined Rayleigh and Mie scattering technique has been developed to measure velocity, density, temperature, and turbulence velocity fluctuations in sparsely seeded, high-speed gas flows, and was used to make measurements in a 25.4 mm diameter free jet facility, which operates at subsonic and supersonic flow conditions. This measurement technique is useful for obtaining critical information for validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. The non-intrusive technique is attractive to researchers studying high speed and heated flows where the environment is too harsh for intrusive instruments like hotwires, which disturb the flow and can only be applied to low temperature subsonic flows.