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Volume 27, Issue 6
1 June 1955
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| June 01 1955

Rain Erosion Tests on Aircraft Surfaces at Supersonic Speeds

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1955
Aircraft Engineering (1955) 27 (6): 190.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb032564

AMONG new problems faced by design engineers of supersonic aircraft and missiles is the destructive effect of rain. At transonic and supersonic speeds, rain erosion of aircraft materials may prove to be a limiting factor in all‐weather flying conditions.

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