Ask an Explainer - Aerodynamics

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Q: What is the fastest aircraft?
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Q: What is the difference between hypersonic and transonic?
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Aerodynamics
Q: What is the difference between subsonic and supersonic waves?
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Aerodynamics
Q: What is known as Mach number?
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Aerodynamics
Q: When an airplane increases its angle of attack, why and how does the pressure gradient increase towards the trailing edge?
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Aerodynamics
Q: When an object like a flat plate or an airfoil is immersed in a moving fluid at an angle what makes the fluid above the plate or airfoil move faster than the fluid below?
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Aerodynamics
Q: How do planes fly upside-down?
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Aerodynamics
Q: Why does the air pressure go higher when the air moves slowly and the air pressure lowers when the air is moving faster?
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Aerodynamics
Q: Do the two vortices from the two wingtips rotate in the same direction or in opposite directions?
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Aerodynamics
Q: How does the wingtip vortex reduce the amount of lift generated by the wing?
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Aerodynamics