High-speed flight and the envelope
10 min read
Mach number
M = TAS / local speed of sound. The speed of sound depends only on temperature (about 38.94 × √T kt, with T in kelvin): it falls as you climb in the troposphere, so the same TAS is a higher Mach number up high.
IN THIS LESSON
- Transonic effects
- Coffin corner
- Limits
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