Why are aircrafts more stable traveling faster than sound than at the speed of sound?
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If you go faster than speed of sound, you are cutting through the air like a knife.
If you go slower than the speed of sound, air flows around the plane smoothly.
If you go just at the speed of sound, you can neither cut like a clean knife nor flow around the plane. You are on the edge of chaos. Physics is confused. It’s like trying to slowly cut through the air like a knife, but having the knife get stuck.
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