Talk:Hans Guido Mutke

Just do it

Perhaps he should simply claim to have possibly "accidentally" broken the sound barrier prior to the deliberate and documented effort by CY and crew... Radiooperator 16:58, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Exactly, the X1 and CY should be given the credit as the 1st super sonic plane/pilot as it was specifically designed for the purpose, and not just a wartime fluke by a very lucky pilot - although the story is nonetheless interesting. If the Germans had actually been interested in breaking the sound barrier with a human in a powered vehicle it would have been easy enough to have strapped some poor Russian prisoner to a V2 - but what would have been the point when they were fighting for their very existance! 82.36.25.12 (talk) 09:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Featured on the Main Page on April 19th 2004 in the section "Did you know...":"...that Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier?"

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I just came across this page protected; there was no evidence of a dispute, no notice in the article, and no discussion on this talk page, so I've unprotected it. -- Seth Ilys 21:00, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

From the protection log: "07:39, 20 Apr 2004 David Newton protected Hans Guido Mutke". Maybe he clicked on the wrong button by accident. -- chris_73 00:41, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The Claim

The significant thing about Mutke's claim is not that he suffered buffeting. Buffeting was regularly reported by military pilots at high speed. The significant thing is that Mutke reported the buffeting increased as the speed seemed to increase in the dive and then suddenly stopped without the aircraft slowing and normal control returning. It is the sudden stopping of the buffeting and control returning without slowing down that is significant as this is typical of the smoothing out that occurs when supersonic flow is achieved over the entire airframe. He then reported that the plane slowed as the engines flamed out and the buffeting resumed. This is what happens when dropping back into the transonic region.GregOrca (talk) 13:16, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Presently I've counted 4 appearances of a description of crossing the sound barrier in this article. It is a redundant read. Once from the pilot's perspective and then maybe a second time abstractly to reinforce the phenomenal significance would be plently. BTW, after the 4th time "buffeting" is then defined yet again increasing the current explanation count to 5. I'm no expert. - Steve3849 ^talk 13:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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--One Salient Oversight 06:14, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Mach 20 Shuttle

The article mentions that the shuttle does not have an area-rule fuselage. However, does the shuttle fly supersonic in the atmosphere? I thought once it descended down to where atmospheric pressure was enough for it to use aerodynamic control, it was subsonic, or at least not "20 Mach."74.239.2.104 (talk) 18:32, 14 October 2009 (UTC)