Re: [OM] OT Low Flying, was an OM weekend

[John Cwiklinski]

Jerry Liles wrote:

> >
The ripple is either the boundary between laminar and turbulent flow
over the wing or the shock front where the local airflow goes
supersonic.
<<

Sounds like a Mechanical Engineering explanation and just what I have been 
looking for.
Fluid mechanics describes this as cavitation, but I have never been able to 
corroborate. I've asked Cessna pilots about it being called cavitation and 
they have said no, but they do not know the technical term for it.
Any idea of the technical term for the vaporization of air around the wings 
and/or fuselage of an aircraft? Is it cavitation?
Really OT now.

John Cwiklinski

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