Built rapidly over the last 15 years, the Mianyang facility in southwest China includes a newly completed transonic wind ...

Transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability encountered in the transonic flight regime. Manifesting as self-sustained oscillations of shock waves on the wing surfaces, this phenomenon leads to ...

Daily Memo: China’s Growing Widebody Test Capabilities Revealed As U.S. Cuts Back is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense ...

These improvements in modeling enable a deeper understanding of aerodynamic behavior, particularly in transonic regimes where traditional methods struggle due to complex flow phenomena like unsteady ...

Whitcomb, who in 1958 had become head of the transonic aerodynamics branch, developed his own SST design. It was beautiful, he says, but, like all SST proposals, impractical because the supersonic ...

The aerodynamics research shifted to the more modern National Transonic Facility, the world’s largest pressurized cryogenic wind tunnel, that is capable of testing at a higher transonic Reynolds ...

After college he joined the Transonic Aerodynamics Branch of NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.