Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Shuttle makes spooky-cool Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud
Reports say Space Shuttle Discovery's July 25 liftoff generated a Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud (the mysterious "now-you-see-it-now-you-don't" formations sometimes observed in relation to jets in transonic flight). Link
Shown here, one such cloud on a transonic F-18A aircraft (image: US Navy, details on photo here).
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