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Thecriticalmachis the speed at which some of the air passing over the aircraft's wing becomes supersonic.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are two effects in particular, wave drag andcriticalmach.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At speeds belowcriticalmach, one of the primary forms of drag is skin friction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This appears to be a new form of drag -- referred to as wave drag -- which peaks at about three times the drag at speeds even slightly below thecriticalmach.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since the shocks form when the local air velocity reaches supersonic speeds, there is a certaincriticalmachspeed (or drag divergence mach number) where this effect becomes noticeable.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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