F18 Supersonic flyby with sonic boom on CVN69 USS Eisenhower

[usnsquirrel]

F-14's much more impressive.

[MegaFlapjack10]

so cool

[muntu1221]

Let's go the speed of smell next!

[Naganiet200]

Stop an 0:05 WTF ??

[raggedsolution21]

XD fooboshhh

[munkypoo91]

SOO much louder in person

[ruhroh999]

@kcaj123456 yeah, but who says we can't do what we are doing to cars but do it for jets? i mean its a stretch and maybe never possible

[tribeisone]

that vapor cone is just SICK!!!!



[xelfrepusla]

Nice......if there were 50 planes which broke the sound barrier at the same time..........

[Uniformsaplus]

Thanks, ptschafer. Felt certain this was a sonic boom -- one of several during the show. The camera didn't capture it but there were actually two distinct sonic booms. Apparently this is normal: one from the nose breaking the sound barrier and then the tail.

[ptschafer]

Dead giveaway that it was a sonic boom... the vapor waves resonating off of the body and wings. The "cone-like" looking vapors will only happen at supersonic speeds.

[GOODY61]

@ptschafer Wrong, the condensation can form a few miles under the speed of sound. The sonic boom is what determines if the speed of sound was reached.

[Nikon23462]

GARBAGE sonic boom, nothing like the cat could do.

[JManGuitar5150]

Yeah, the F-14 is still faster than any airplane we have in service right now :(

[beroth1]

F-15 look it up again lol.

[JManGuitar5150]

what?

[macuss87]

@beroth1 the Mig-25 has the F-15 beat by mach 0.2/0.3 F-15 is better in almost every other way.

[beroth1]

@macuss87 I guess I screwed those words up... I meant fastest "fighter". The MiG is more of an interceptor.

[RJ200pilot]

@JManGuitar5150 not true..Even though I am a die hard Tom Cat fan, the F-22 has it beat on speed. But the F-14 was def. the best looking fighter made. I am sad to see it gone from our forces. If the Navy still operated them I would have joined them instead of the Air Force!!

[JManGuitar5150]

@RJ200pilot Actually the F-14's max speed is Mach 2.34 and the F-22's is Mach 2.25. However the F-22 does have supercruise.

I was wrong though, the F-15 can hit over Mach 2.5 (1,650 MPH!!)

[RJ200pilot]

@JManGuitar5150 Hey thanks for the info...well it looks like the Air Force still reigns supreme haha

[captwasabi]

Yeah....there was no sonic boom there. If there was all the people at that show would have been on the floor.

[JManGuitar5150]

No... That was definitely a sonic boom lol. Sonic booms are extremely loud, but not that loud.

[ruhroh999]

To think we made Jets go faster than the speed of sound in 50 years. God knows what we could do in another 50 years.

[lander4545]

What do they have in hiding now is the real question!

[ruhroh999]

lol your right

[xelfrepusla]

@ruhroh999 pass the speed of light xD

[Dunthyon]

@ruhroh999 Flying cars come out in 2012... :|

[groov539]

@ruhroh999 One man transformed a country of 300 million people from a free Republic to Socialist in less than 3 years.

[dibthoj]

holy shitty! awesomeness!!!

[vandhanalol]

cant see shit

[1501HP]

Pretty cool to think that my air rifle can shoot a pellet faster than that.

[demonator65]

lol i hope that was sarcasm because if you shot that shit in your backyard your damn windows would be busted you eardrums would probobly be busted also

[1501HP]

actually it just makes a small sonic boom.

not that loud. but it does go faster then the speed of sound.

[PeeNoYaKo]

Camera shook i think lol

[OutcastedOutlaw]

holy shit that looked cool

[RevenantLove]

I cannot WAIT until the next cruise. That had to be the coolest thing I've ever seen.