Explore: Transonic Planes

Transonic (or transsonic) flow is air flowing around an object at a speed that generates regions of both subsonic and supersonic airflow around that object

have also since sponsored X-plane projects. The first experimental aircraft specification, for a transonic rocket plane, was placed in 1945, and the

that of smaller private planes, with the per-mile statistic indicating that airliners are 8.3 times safer than smaller planes. Like all activities involving

Wings: Convair's High-Speed Planes of the Fifties and Sixties. Motorbooks. 1983. Myhra, David. Focke-Wulf Ta 183 (X Planes of the Third Reich). Atglen

Whitcomb and also called the transonic area rule, is a design procedure used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic speeds which occur between about

reliable in the transonic. Further, a series of tests made by Karl Doetsch at the behest of Willy Messerschmitt found that the plane became uncontrollable

tail planes of the old Farman biplanes were "lifting tail planes," and were, as a matter of fact, rather heavily cambered. By a non-lifting tail plane is

11 ft (3.4 m) transonic tunnel, then later in 2019 at the 14 by 22 ft (4.3 by 6.7 m) subsonic tunnel at NASA Langley. A full-scale X-plane is being developed

"NASA Picks Boeing's Transonic Truss-Based Wing For Sustainable X-Plane". Aviation Week. "Boeing producing battery-powered hybrid plane". Northwest Cable

categories:[citation needed] At transonic speeds, the flow field around the object includes both sub- and supersonic parts. The transonic period begins when first