Mach buffeting

noun

Buffeting and internal disturbances caused by pressure differentials that result from parts of an airplane wing traveling at supersonic speed and part at subsonic speed.

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nounMach buffeting (uncountable)
  1. uncountableaerodynamicsBuffeting and internal disturbances caused by pressure differentials that result from parts of an airplane wing traveling at supersonic speed and part at subsonic speed.

    In contrast, high-altitude buffeting, or Mach buffeting, resulted from operating the aircraft at too high a speed.

    2020 March 31, Robert L. Richardson, Spying from the Sky: At the Controls of US Cold War Aerial Intelligence, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN
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