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A sonic boom is a sound associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding similar to an explosion or a thunderclap to the human ear.
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.
The shock wave may be caused by sonic boom or by explosion, and the resulting overpressure receives particular attention when measuring the effects of nuclear weapons or thermobaric bombs. Effects [ edit ]
A sonic boom "is an impulsive noise similar to thunder," according to the U.S. Air Force. "It is caused by an object moving faster than sound — about 750 miles per hour at sea level.
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.
A Space-X Falcon 9 rocket caused a sonic boom Saturday around Ventura, but no. Didn’t happen Friday. More likely it was testing in the desert east of Edwards of the X-59 and its 38-foot-long ...
The program was intended to develop technology that may allow next generation supersonic transports to overfly populated areas at above Mach 1 (the speed of sound) without the high intensity of sonic boom that proved problematic for first generation supersonic transports such as Concorde (c.f. Operation Bongo).
The boom was heard Sunday after the U.S. military dispatched six fighter jets to intercept an unresponsive business plane flying over restricted airspace. The Air Force gave the F-16s permission ...