The Challenges of Supersonic Flight
| Dates: | September 21, 2020 |
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| Meets: | Mon. from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM |
| Location: | Online Webex System |
| Cost: | $0.00 |
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Remember the Concorde? This supersonic airliner is long retired, but engineers are revisiting the prospects of high-speed air transportation. In this talk, Tony Demetriades, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MSU, will popularize some of the formidable obstacles to supersonic flight, including deafening sonic booms and the forbiddingly extreme temperatures generated on hypervelocity airplanes and missiles. Demetriades will also address the connection between supersonic motion and shock waves using stories about the Tungaska and Chelyabinsk meteorite impacts, the spectacle of shooting stars, the effect of nuclear blasts, and a space probe that returned to Earth after visiting Mars.
| Fee: | $0.00 |
Online Webex System
You will receive a confirmation email with Log-in Instructions.Tony Demetriades
Anthony (Tony) Demetriades received his A.B. from New York's Colgate University, his M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He spent 16 years in the aerospace industry and taught mechanical engineering at Montana State University. He has lived in Bozeman since 1979, was chairman of Gallatin County's Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee and of Gallatin County's Historic Preservation Board. He has a deep interest in history, especially the history of Western culture and the history of the American West.