SciShow: A Surprisingly Simple Secret to Supersonic Flight

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Content of the Lesson: Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest assumptions in aerodynamics! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160505-the-spitfires-that-nearly-broke-the-sound-barrier http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/libri/PDF_Libri_By_Archive.org/AVIATION/The%20Hight%20Speed%20Frontier%20-%20Case%20Histories%20of%20Four%20NACA%20Programs%20-%20Becker%20J..pdf [PDF] https://www.decodedscience.org/airplane-propellers-how-is-thrust-produced-in-a-non-jet-plane/5895 https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/mach-1-assaulting-the-barrier-22647052/?all https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/propanl.html http://www.mech.utah.edu/~pardyjak/me3700/IntroCompFlow.pdf [PDF] http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/arc/rm/3520.pdf [PDF] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/15349/what-is-the-optimal-wing-sweep-angle-for-a-passenger-airliner https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/probing_the_sky.pdf [PDF] https://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sflight.htm https://alum.mit.edu/slice/why-hasnt-commercial-air-travel-gotten-any-faster-1960s https://books.google.com/books?id=asxWDgAAQBAJ https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/bell-x-1 https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/machang.html https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/learn/historyculture/thefirstflight.htm Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transonico-en.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yeager_supersonic_flight_1947.ogv


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