#concord airliner

[spenglercore]

ok this has been bugging me. I already blocked the sender but I got an ask earlier for an OLD ass post on my main blog where this fucking chud tried to mansplain physics to me and I just.

I cannot get over this bro telling me that ram air isn't why things burn up on re-entry, and then trying to bullshit some pseudoscience physics about how the vibration of the atoms rubbing on the object plus the atoms sliding across it's surface is what causes it.

No that's not how it works and the fact that you dug up a six year old post on my blog tells me you have nothing better to do than start shit with people and would simply put your fingers in your ears and yell LALALALALALA if I tried to flatten you with the actual physics.

Things don't just burn up on re-entry, modern supersonic aircraft ALSO heat up due to ram pressure in flight, to the point where the X-15 - with a skin made of ICONEL (a nickel-chromium alloy) which is a superb heatsink, fucking started MELTING in flight. Concord had problems with heat from ram air. The Blackbird leaks fuel like a sieve because it's components were made too small on purpose to account for thermal expansion due to - you fuckin guessed it - ram air.

See in physics gases do this funny thing when compressed and heat up. No heat is added, so much as the heat energy in a given volume of gas is now forced into a smaller space and thus the temperature rises. Compress it enough, like when you're forcing something through the upper atmosphere at 4,520mph or coming back down from orbit at 17,500mph or more, the pressure put on atmospheric gases causes them to heat up, and that heat is absorbed by the object.

[unbfacts]

There were once supersonic passenger planes that could reach speeds of up to 1,354 mph. In comparison, today’s commercial airliners typically cruise at around 560 mph.

[nocternalrandomness]

Overflying Durdle Door in Dorset, England

[planeyboys]

Feelin jolly at mach 2

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

concorde supersonic airliner, circa 1985.

[itsfullofstars]

[brianfrench1995]

Japan Air Lines Concorde Postcard

@postcardtimemachine

[bouncinghedgehog]

April, 1985, 50,000 feet over the Irish Sea, this is the only picture ever taken of a Concorde flying over Mach 2. The photo itself was taken by Adrian Meredith, a prestigious British photographer, from a Panavia Tornado, a British fighter of the Royal Air Force. Meredith had to be quick and precise, because flying that high he had less than 4 mins to take the shot. The fighter couldn't keep up with the Concorde beyond that time. If you look at the horizon, the Earth's curvature begins to show

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[a-4skyhawk]

British-French Concorde and Russian Tu-144 'Charger' at Auto & Technikmuseum Sinsheim in Germany

[pretty-little-fools]

[captain-flanders]

British Airways ad. Concorde and Boening 747 - two majestic birds. My absolute favorites.

[nocternalrandomness]

Concorde - RAF Cottesmore - October 1987

[savageboar]

i wanna redo my wall decor to be aviation oriented...

[histrorybygosh]

Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde