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shock stalls

shock stalls is the plural of shock stall.

shock stalls is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stalls

alternative formshock-stalls

Questions about shock stalls

What is shock stalls the plural of?
Shock stalls is the plural of shock stall.

Words near shock stalls in the dictionary

  1. shock sites
  2. shock stall
  3. shock stalled
  4. shock stalling
  5. shock stallings
  6. shock stalls
  7. shock tactics
  8. shock therapies
  9. shock therapy
  10. shock to the system
  11. shock trauma

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