Extreme pressures come with high-speed flight. The resulting aerodynamic forces can bring significant risk to deforming the components of the vehicle in motion — even to the point of aeroelastic deformation — when solids behave more like liquids. This can jeopardize stability or controllability of the entire vehicle.
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Source: ScienceDaily