WaveRider
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10 sectionsContents
- History
- Early work
- Caret wing
- Cone flow waveriders
- Viscous optimized waveriders
- Design
- Surface material
- See also
- References
- External links
right|thumb|The Boeing X-51 forebody is an example of cone-derived waverider right|thumb| another configuration of waverider. thumb| Small-scale model of the Soviet/Russian Ayaks aircraft exposed at the 1993 [[MAKS Air Show, Moscow. It is still currently under development]]
A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft design that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves being generated by its own flight as a lifting surface, a phenomenon known as compression lift.