Overcoming the "sound barrier" aircraft Bashny.Net

Interestingly, the pilot of modern supersonic aircraft feels good "overcome" their aircraft sound barrier: the transition to supersonic flow there is "aerodynamic blow" and the characteristic "jumps" in the handling.

The effect of the Prandtl - Gloerta - a phenomenon is the appearance of clouds behind the object flying at transonic speeds in conditions of high humidity. Most often seen in airplanes. At very high humidity, this effect also occurs when flying at lower speeds.

The reason for its occurrence is that flying at high speed aircraft creates an area of ​​high pressure air in front of him and a low pressure area behind. After the flight of the aircraft area of ​​low pressure begins to fill the surrounding air. By virtue of the rather high inertia of the air mass at first the entire region is filled with low pressure air from the surrounding areas adjacent to areas of low pressure.