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Energy balance in fixed wing flight, action/reaction
When an airplane is in flight the engine of the plane overcomes drag until the plane is moving forward fast enough to balance drag. In a stable configuration the air moving over the wings creates lift ...
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Heat dissipation in space - how do they do that?
Consider a space aircraft. During its propulsion, I believe a lot of heat is transmitted to the aircraft by simple contact with the motor. But in space, there is no air to cool the aircraft. The only ...
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Calculating (transient) rate of cycles of practical thermodynamic engines (turbojet, multi-cylinder car engines etc..)
I tried to make a plan for a turbojet engine with my physics knowledge and I'm stumped in the first step. For any sustained real engine, I need to somehow take a fraction of the energy output and use ...
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Sonic Boom in Aircraft and Spacecraft
I would like to know why aircraft, and spacecraft produce a double sonic boom on breaking the sound barrier.
A while ago, I thought I got it, as there’s a start and finish point to every vehicle.
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Airplane trails
Some airplanes leave a trail through some regions of sky. This post explains why it is so, but it seems not enough.
The trail is said to be made mostly of water which, on a specific altitude, ...
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Would a plane get lighter if dry ice is inside and it sublimes during the flight?
During a series of comments here,
it was suggested that taking dry ice into an airplane, the airplane gets lighter as the ice sublimes.
This was supported by the idea that when the dry-ice sublimes ...
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Why Jet fighters don't heat up like spacecrafts?
After reading the answers to this question: After what speed air friction starts to heat up an object?
I understood that the compression of gas is what generates heat that we see when a spacecraft or ...
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Why do vapour cones form around jet fighters?
Apparently this phenomenon has nothing to do with jets breaking the sound barrier and has something to do with the Prandtl-Glauert singularity as described on Wikipedia. But, the Wikipedia article isn'...
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