During and just after World War II, the quest for ever faster fighter planes reached an apparent natural barrier—the speed of sound.
On approaching this limit, aircraft became unstable and uncontrollable. It became clear that new developments in engineering were going to be necessary in order to advance air speed travel beyond this natural speed limit. In this full lecture, discover how a new approach to aircraft design solved the problem of compressibility and shock waves, paving the way for supersonic flight.
