There are many reasons why airplanes crash. Lift and drag are always connected, and perhaps never more so than when a plane enters a stall. That’s what happened on a cold, winter day in 2009 in upstate New York in the Colgan Air 3407 crash. […]
During and just after World War II, the quest for ever faster fighter planes reached an apparent natural barrier—the speed of sound. Yet, on approaching this limit, aircraft became unstable and uncontrollable. In this full lecture, discover how a new approach to aircraft design solved the problem of compressibility and shock waves in this transonic region, paving the way for supersonic flight and paved the way to breaking the sound barrier. […]
Autonomous Jet UAV flies at 147 mph for 28 miles over Lake Erie […]
The Supersonic Airliner- Will It Be Economically Viable? Discover more on Wondrium Daily and dive deeper with “The Science of Flight” […]
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