WILL THERE OR WILL THERE NOT
BE A HYPERSONIC AIRPLANE?

Yu. V. Polezhaev

UDC 629.78:536.24

An analytical overview of the problems of heat transfer 
occurring in horizontal flight of a body in the earth's atmosphere 
at a hypersonic speed is given. It is shown that, despite the enormous 
experience accumulated in the design and development of shuttle systems 
(Space Shuttle, Buran), the creation of a hypersonic airplane still 
remains a serious scientific and technological problem, the solution 
of which will require fundamentally new methods of protecting the 
structure against aerodynamic heating.

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