Mach 2, has this ever been done?

[Exhaustgases]

Flying through the dreaded thunder storm, in something like an F4 Phantom at high mach speed?

 

[Just a civilian pilot]

Not supersonic, but…

F-106 Delta Dart NASA Lightening Strikes

Read the history of NASA Lightening Strike research using he F-106 Delta Dart Ultimate Interceptor as it serverd for 30 years in NASA projects.

www.f-106deltadart.com

 

[Astro14]

Nobody deliberately flies through a thunderstorm.

Here is a Harrier that made that mistake.

 

[Skippy722]

TACA Flight 110 was forced to make an emergency landing on a levee in Louisiana after encountering hail in a severe thunderstorm.

 

[billt460]

TACA Flight 110 was forced to make an emergency landing on a levee in Louisiana after encountering hail in a severe thunderstorm.


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And that was a brand new airplane. I believe it was it's maiden voyage.

 

[Just a civilian pilot]

TACA Flight 110 was forced to make an emergency landing on a levee in Louisiana after encountering hail in a severe thunderstorm.


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That aircraft finished its life with Southwest Airlines IIRC.

 

[Just a civilian pilot]

Some planes just aren’t ready to written off yet….

Cornfield Bomber - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Zee09]

When I wore a younger man's clothes I hit Mach 2 once in a rat powered Vespa.

 

[walterjay]

And now you're attempting to do it in your pickup.

 

[thastinger]

Nobody deliberately flies through a thunderstorm.

Here is a Harrier that made that mistake.

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I need some of whatever the heck that canopy is made of.

 

[Exhaustgases]

I'm thinking the results would be better at mach speeds.

 

[Astro14]

I'm thinking the results would be better at mach speeds.

If by better, you mean more extensive damage, you would be correct. The Harrier was subsonic.

Kinetic energy = 1/2mv2.

So, double the velocity, get four times the energy.

With the same size hail - four times the energy isn’t going to be pretty.

 

[meep]

Nobody deliberately flies through a thunderstorm.

Here is a Harrier that made that mistake.

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That pilot is fortunate to have landed on its wheels.

 

[Exhaustgases]

If by better, you mean more extensive damage, you would be correct. The Harrier was subsonic.

Kinetic energy = 1/2mv2.

So, double the velocity, get four times the energy.

With the same size hail - four times the energy isn’t going to be pretty.

I was thinking the wave from the plane would deflect the hail, as well as cause zero effect from any turbulence as well. Maybe needs hyper sonic to do that?

 

[Astro14]

I was thinking the wave from the plane would deflect the hail, as well as cause zero effect from any turbulence as well. Maybe needs hyper sonic to do that?

That’s not how shock waves work - the hail will still go through the shock wave, with minimal change in direction.

The turbulence will also go through the shock wave.

I don’t know enough about hypersonic flight to answer that, but I suspect it will not make much of a difference.

 

[kschachn]

I was thinking the wave from the plane would deflect the hail, as well as cause zero effect from any turbulence as well. Maybe needs hyper sonic to do that?

Wut?

 

[Eddie]

1/2 mv^/2=energy

 

[y_p_w]

Flying through the dreaded thunder storm, in something like an F4 Phantom at high mach speed?

Most supersonic flight will be at altitude though. Nice flying above thunderstorms.

 

[wpod]

Nobody deliberately flies through a thunderstorm.

Here is a Harrier that made that mistake.

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Hail damage ?

 

[burbguy82]

When I wore a younger man's clothes I hit Mach 2 once in a rat powered Vespa.

Bet that felt like warp speed.