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Aerial view of Oklahoma City (1974 photograph) A Convair B-58 Hustler, one of the airplane models used in the Oklahoma City sonic boom tests The Oklahoma City sonic boom tests, also known as Operation Bongo II, refer to a controversial experiment, organized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in which 1,253 sonic booms were generated over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, over a period of six ...
On January 20, 2023, at 3:38 AM CST, a slow-moving fireball lit up the sky over Eastern Oklahoma. [58] An accompanying sonic boom was heard by many witnesses in the Oklahoma cities of Bixby, Broken Arrow, Coweta, Wagoner and as far away as Fayetteville, Arkansas. The resulting shockwave shook houses in the affected area, many people reported.
From February 3 to July 29, 1964, Oklahoma City was subjected to eight sonic booms per day in a controversial experiment known as the Oklahoma City sonic boom tests. The intent was to quantify the sociological and economic costs of a supersonic transport aircraft. The experiment resulted in 15,400 damage claims.
Feb. 20—SWANTON — Allen County residents could hear sonic booms today as the 180th Fighter Wing of the Toledo Air National Guard conducts a pair of functional check flights. Flights are ...
Space Force officials have admitted that sonic booms from Vandenberg affect over 100 miles of California coast, just as SpaceX aims to ramp up launches. Mysterious sonic booms rattle SoCal coast ...
Sonic boom ‘explosion’ shakes Washington, DC, as fighter jets react to unresponsive plane before crash Pilot of private jet was ‘unresponsive’ even as F-16s used ‘flares’ to draw attention
A sonic boom is a shock-wave, or pressure disturbance, caused by the movement of the plane through the air, much like the wave produced by the bow of a ship as it moves through water: just as the bow wave is produced for the entire journey of the ship, so the sonic shockwave occurs throughout the duration of a supersonic flight. [9]
According to the U.S. Air Force website, a sonic boom can sound like thunder and is typically caused by a jet moving faster than sound, “about 750 miles per hour at sea level.”