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To: Ken522
i am not air nautical engineer

thats usually what happens when they break sound barrier

they i think leave the compressed air behind...

my 2c
3 posted on 11/12/2006 7:47:46 AM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Flavius

There is a name, it is not directly realted to breaking the sound barrier. B-2s can generate the same condensation, and they are decidedly subsonic.


34 posted on 11/12/2006 8:41:31 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Flavius
the compressed air

Visible vapor forms depending on dewpoint when the pressure drops. This is a partial vacuum.

54 posted on 11/12/2006 10:34:56 AM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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