Shock stall (original) (raw)

A shock stall is a stall created when the airflow over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves formed when flying at or above the aircraft's drag divergence Mach number. A stall is the decrease in lift to a value below the Weight, and the associated increase in drag upon the separation of the boundary layer (in this case behind the shock wave). Look up shock stall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. * v * t * e