Perhaps not a complete stop but numerous aircraft were destroyed as they tried to break the speed of sound. The air building up in front of you can in fact form a wall. We shouldn’t discount the force supplied by air. It is a pressure wave from bombs, not fire, that causes explosive damage.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Oh, yeah, the forces are very intense. But it isn’t at all the same as coming to a complete stop - closer to the water hammer effect if anything (since the air becomes incompressable at those speeds). There’s also a lot of turbulence, vibration, and heat from the drastically increased air resistance.
musicalphysics@discuss.online 1 week ago
Correct. No complete stop.