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Old 29th Oct 2016, 04:12
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I'm sure there are exceptions, but as a general rule (at least for subsonic aircraft) max airspeed is limited by dynamic pressure, while max Mach is limited by controllability issues primarily related to supersonic flow over the control surfaces.
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