"Recent experiments indicate that a gaseous envelope (such as the one shown below around a torpedo) can double the speed of underwater missiles. The vapor envelope eliminates much of the skin-friction drag of a hydrodynamic body."Issue: The Flash #128 (May 1962)
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I remember reading about this technique...somewhere a couple of years ago. They call it supercavitation now. (That really sounds like I should be singing it. Or at least saying it loud enough to sound precocious.)
You're just full of facts, Kelson! Supercavitation, eh? That's got a much better ring to it than, say, "gaseous envelope!"
oh, my... this image seems rather... ah-hem, perhaps i shouldn't comment...
but really, the envelope "eliminates much of the skin-friction drag"?... wow.
You've just taken a Flash Fact and made it more than a little bit dirty. Wow. And that's why I love you.
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