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Old 26th Jan 2012, 15:39
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CliveL
 
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Two shock waves - the main one located on the nose, then an expansion field over the wing and a final shock at the tail where the flow was recompressed. [That is ignoring all the intake shocks!] The two compression shocks are what gives rise to the characteristic Boom-boom on the ground.

The aircraft was dynamically stable (just) because it had natural pitch damping, but in practice to give good handling qualities some artificial damping was required via the autostabiliser.
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