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shock-stall

shock-stall is the alternative form of shock stall.

Meaning of shock stall

Noun

shock stall (plural shock stalls)

  1. A stall (“sudden loss of lift”) caused when the airflow over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic speeds.
    • When I was down to 32,000 feet the altimeter was spinning merrily and the dive was very steep and I was pulling back on the stick in the usual way due to the change of trim at the shock stall.1944 April 27, Peter Caygill, quoting Tony Martindale, “Problems with Compressibility”, in Sound Barrier: The Rocky Road to MACH 1.0+, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation, Pen & Sword...

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Forms of shock-stall

Noun
pluralshock-stalls
Verb
third-person singular presentshock-stalls
present participleshock-stalling
past participleshock-stalled
pastshock-stalled

Questions about shock-stall

What is shock-stall the alternative form of?
Shock-stall is the alternative form of shock stall.

Words near shock-stall in the dictionary

  1. shock wave
  2. shock waves
  3. shock worker
  4. shock workers
  5. shock-headed
  6. shock-stall
  7. shock-stalled
  8. shock-stalling
  9. shock-stalls
  10. shockability
  11. shockable

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