Re:The 1950's Jet Launching Tiny Satellites
by tzs on Sunday September 04, 2016 @01:22AM
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> Less than a decade after test pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the speed of sound, it became the first jet to fly more than twice the speed of sound.
Flying faster than the speed of sound has physical significance, because there are major changes in the way the air and the plane interact as you pass the speed of sound.
If there anything physically significant about twice the speed of sound, or is that just special psychologically?
Flying faster than the speed of sound has physical significance, because there are major changes in the way the air and the plane interact as you pass the speed of sound.
If there anything physically significant about twice the speed of sound, or is that just special psychologically?