Hypersonic Fever! With Chris Combs and Alex Hollings
The Hermeus Podcast
The Problem With Mach Numbers in Hypersonic Flight
I think hypersonics with an S on the end is a word as a field in and of itself. A lot of people don't like that, but I stick to it. None of the hashtags with the S at the end work. So because it's an adjective, yeah. But there's some real, there's some really significant things that happen when you go from Mach four point nine to five point one. You've got this, you know, a shock layer that forms around the vehicle and you can start to see plasma. Those things pop up and become problematic at different Mach numbers.
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