Commercial airliners fly in what is known as the transonic regime at Mach numbers between 0.8 and 1.0. While the airplane itself never exceeds the speed of sound, that doesn’t Keep reading
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Transonic Flow
In the transonic speed regime the overall speed of an airplane is less than Mach 1 but some parts of the flow around the aircraft break the speed of sound. Keep reading
STS-135: The Final Shuttle Flight
Condensation clouds form around sections of Atlantis as STS-135–the final space shuttle flight–launches from Cape Canaveral this morning. These clouds, also called Prandtl-Glauert singularities or vapor cones, form at transonic Keep reading