WaveRider
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Within Vinony's link graph, WaveRider is referenced by 28 other articles, and connects out to transpiration, delta wing and atmospheric entry.
It sits within the topics Aerodynamics, Aerospace engineering and Aircraft configurations.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Early work
- Caret wing
- Cone flow waveriders
- Viscous optimized waveriders
- Design
- Surface material
- See also
- References
- External links
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WaveRider” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.