Test conducted in the 1950s at NASA Langley Research Center’s 11 inch Hypersonic Tunnel. The models literally start to disintegrate.... because

aerodynamic heating is the heating of an object when passed through the air at high speed so that its kinetic energy is converted to heat by compression and the skin friction of the surface of the object.

#Hypersonics, #Disclosure, #Aerodynamics

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