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Friday, October 22, 2010

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Published by Nat B
From http://www.djmick.co.uk/

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

These are pictures that we rarely if ever see simply due to the fact the timing has to be precise.  When a plane hits the sound barrier it refers to the point at which an aircraft moves from transonic to supersonic speed.
The term came into use during World War II when a number of aircraft started to encounter the effects of compressibility, a collection of several unrelated aerodynamic effects. By the 1950s, new aircraft designs started to routinely “break” the sound barrier

But for simple people like us if refers to a badass point in time where a plane looks like it’s going through some kind of storm that it created on its own. And that storm happens to look pretty awesome.

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier

Planes Breaking The Sound Barrier
source


Prandtl–Glauert singularity

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/

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