Posted on 01/12/2019 11:59:41 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
I take it if the plane is traveling at Mach 0.8, the air stream over the curvature of the wing could approach Mach 1 or even a little higher.
“It’s called that because it’s not supersonic (exceeds speed of sound). It’s max speed is under that.”
There is a better word for that - “sub-sonic”. Trans means across or over, not under.
More like a semi-cantilever high-wing. A big fat Cessna with a sailplane ratio.
Yes, you’re right. This is what happens when you try to reply to something and there’s two coonhounds and a bloodhound having a baying competition at the same time.
“This is what happens when you try to reply to something and there’s two coonhounds and a bloodhound having a baying competition at the same time.
LOL. Must be quite a concert! I can hear it now!
Because airflow everywhere over the aircraft (or the bullet for that matter) does not go from subsonic to supersonic (or the reverse) simultaneously. There's always a transitional range where part of the airflow is subsonic and part is sonic or supersonic. Because it's a transitional range, it's called transonic.
The aircraft enters the transonic region once it has reached the critical Mach number, which is usually around 0.8 Mach. It remains in the transonic region until airflow everywhere in the aircraft has reached supersonic speed, which happens somewhere about 1.2 - 1.3 Mach.
Yes it can be quite the concert, and the bloodhound (male) and one of the coonhounds (female) aren’t fixed. It could get worse heh.
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11645 nautical miles is approximately 13400 statute miles, more than half the circumference of the Earth -- except for Flat Earth morons, but the insane asylum staff will find them and put them back in their cell soon enough. Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Probably baiting airbus. I hear Trump helped kill the A380 by flexing muscles on China which did not buy more of the Euro craft.
Note: thie topic was posted 01/12/2019.
General Electric’s efficient supersonic engine:
http://www.google.com/search?q=GE+supersonic+engine+site:youtube.com
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