As a former military air traffic controller I can tell you two things... 1. A pilot breaking the sound barrier and causing a sonic boom over the continental US could lose his license to fly, and 2. How come no one jump out of their skin when the so-called boom occurred? Sonic booms are extremely loud especially at low altitude. There was no sonic boom here.
A few years ago, I heard a not-quite sonic boom, and wondered what it was. "Gee, that didn't have a double pulse- didn't come from the cement plant's quarry off to the west, or from China Lake dropping ordnance... odd." Then it happened again and I realized, "Oh, thunder!" Around here, you hear hoofbeats, ya think zebras...
I work in Mojave, California, we get booms often, but always from aircraft at 25,000 ft or more- and they are damn loud, making a distinctive ba-boom. Even Space Ship One, small as it was, gave a clear N-wave. This vid does not capture a boom.
This F-18 was going transonic. Fast enough some parts of the aircraft are breaking the sound barrier but not enough the whole aircraft was. Seen it first hand one more than one occasion.
I've also been the unwilling recipient of a real sonic boom courtesy of one soon to be in deep shit USAF pilot who thought it be funny to pass over my house at mach 1. After the boom I heard the whine and rumble distinct to the F-16 and its single turbofan. I would have enjoyed it had I saw or expected it.
not a sonic boom. When a plane sonic booms you wont hear it approaching and it will pass with little to no sound and then you hear a boom anywhere from a second to 3 seconds later depending on speed!
@TheLegendary754 Agreed. Jets are not allowed to break the sound barrier at air shows for a reason. Breaking the barrier at such a low altitude can actually shatter windows. The poster is getting pissed off at everyone when he is the one that is uninformed. There are a lot of people in here with a lot more experience than you. Learn to accept it and move on with your life.
The plane was subsonic in this video. Anyone can be mistaken, but you are arguing like the slowest kid in the 2nd grade. Grow the fuck up and learn about the subject first.
Stop your crying. It wasn't a sonic boom. It was a jet that flew by. At that range there would be no doubt and the camera would have been shaking wildly. It's a BOOM!
thats not sonic boom.:they are not allowed to break the sound barrier at any air show if they did it would break windows in the area and may also cause hearing loss(niiicceeeeee) what you heard was jusssttt under the sound barrier a lil boom but nice enough to give you a stiff one
No sonic boom there sorry to say..... Cameraman would have jumped out of his skin if that had been supersonic. Most of the airshow sonic boom vids on you tube are not supersonic and when they do go through the barrier it's at high altitude... Check out mythbusters sonic boom vid for real low flying sonic boom's..
i used to think that all these videos of sonic booms were real, until I heard one in real life. obama came to seattle and a small plane breached the airspace, only to be met by f15's at full speed.... they shook all of the puget sound. I didn't hear the boom in your video, sorry but I don't think it happened.
not a full sonic boom, certain parts of the plane start to break the sound barrier first because of the airflow around it is faster( wing tips, tail tips) and gives u the mini-boom, but until the full drag of the airframe passes through it will not happen
I'll have to agree with everyone else. That IS NOT a sonic boom. Besides, pilots are restricted from producing a sonic boom at air shows by the FAA. Not sure what would have happened to this pilot if he did produce a sonic boom at that level, that close to people, but I'm sure he wouldn't have liked it and it would have involved sitting on his butt and not flying jets for a good long while.
a direct build up of pressure seen as water vapour or vapour cone. an instand buildup op this pressure sounds like a soft bassy boom, but a soundbarrier break sounds like likeawhispr typed under me. get the difference ?
I'll put it this way, you would NOT have to guess whether or not you've heard a sonic boom. Doesn't remotely sound like a sonic boom happened here. Usually when *audibly* captured with a video camera, the sonic boom will make a distinct (and very loud) CRACK.. the boom you'll feel reverberating in your chest, and at that altitude a window or two nearby might break, etc.. No boom in this vid.
Note that military brats that grew up in the 70's can remember hearing sonic booms all the time.
no aircraft is ever allowed to break the sound barrier in an airshow. the FAA would never allow that in a public place, like an airshow. so NO it wasn't a sonic boom.
Well, from my speakers, it sounds like a boom, but obviously you'd have to be there at the show to "feel" it. Was that a Legacy Hornet? Or a Super Hornet? Normally it's a mach .99 pass.
BTW, soccerfsucks, the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-22 Raptor are both louder than the F/A-18 A,B,C and D Hornets, and the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet...
that was not a sonic boom, the f-18 is the loudest plane we have and a sonic boom wouldve been shorter and alot louder. they are not aloud to have sonic booms at public appearences like that
i know that pilots are not allowed to break sound barriers at air shows!
thats why i thaught it was cool.
that was not the end of his rutine, but the second he did that it was like he slammed on the breaks, made a bee line for the first runway he could line up with, and landed.
it was very obvious that he was yelled at.
if any of you had been there(like i keep telling you that "i" was) younot be arguing about it beaing a sonic boom.
Having served on an aircraft carrier for 6 years and witnessed hundereds of sonic booms,and knowing fighters are not allowed to break sound barriers at air shows,that WAS NOT a sonic boom it would have been a thousand times louder than that.sorry
i completely agree with you i fly an f-18s for the Canadian Air force, and have done a number of them my self and heard a number of them and that definitely not a sonic boom
hey man. I think it was already flying Supersonic.. a sonic boom is only at the one moment that he passes the sound barrier. this one is clearly already flying Mach 1.1+
The last dump I took was a bigger sonic boom than this!
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 1 month ago
As a former military air traffic controller I can tell you two things... 1. A pilot breaking the sound barrier and causing a sonic boom over the continental US could lose his license to fly, and 2. How come no one jump out of their skin when the so-called boom occurred? Sonic booms are extremely loud especially at low altitude. There was no sonic boom here.
digrist1 1 month ago
hooked u up with a thumbs up lol
lespaulr6 1 month ago
A few years ago, I heard a not-quite sonic boom, and wondered what it was. "Gee, that didn't have a double pulse- didn't come from the cement plant's quarry off to the west, or from China Lake dropping ordnance... odd." Then it happened again and I realized, "Oh, thunder!" Around here, you hear hoofbeats, ya think zebras...
r0cketplumber 1 month ago
I work in Mojave, California, we get booms often, but always from aircraft at 25,000 ft or more- and they are damn loud, making a distinctive ba-boom. Even Space Ship One, small as it was, gave a clear N-wave. This vid does not capture a boom.
r0cketplumber 1 month ago
This F-18 was going transonic. Fast enough some parts of the aircraft are breaking the sound barrier but not enough the whole aircraft was. Seen it first hand one more than one occasion.
I've also been the unwilling recipient of a real sonic boom courtesy of one soon to be in deep shit USAF pilot who thought it be funny to pass over my house at mach 1. After the boom I heard the whine and rumble distinct to the F-16 and its single turbofan. I would have enjoyed it had I saw or expected it.
BrimstoneMerc 1 month ago
not a sonic boom. When a plane sonic booms you wont hear it approaching and it will pass with little to no sound and then you hear a boom anywhere from a second to 3 seconds later depending on speed!
TheLegendary754 2 months ago
@TheLegendary754 Agreed. Jets are not allowed to break the sound barrier at air shows for a reason. Breaking the barrier at such a low altitude can actually shatter windows. The poster is getting pissed off at everyone when he is the one that is uninformed. There are a lot of people in here with a lot more experience than you. Learn to accept it and move on with your life.
sagrzmnky1972 1 month ago
The plane was subsonic in this video. Anyone can be mistaken, but you are arguing like the slowest kid in the 2nd grade. Grow the fuck up and learn about the subject first.
soyounoat 3 months ago
you all need to be educated on transonic flight.....that plane wasnt even close
beergut111 4 months ago
EVERYONE AT THE AIR SHOW AGREED IT WAS A SONIC BOOM.
swartzautoman 4 months ago
still got more likes than dislikes, bitches always gonna hate.
swartzautoman 4 months ago
@swartzautoman
Just because we're disagreeing with you doesn't mean we are hating anything. Jeez, calm down and don't take you tube comments so personally.
yanksguy23 3 months ago
IT WAS A CRAPPY CAMERA AND COULDNT HANDLE THE AUDIO, THATS TRUE. THE SOUND YOU HEAR IN THE VID IS NOT THE SOUND THAT WE HEARD AT THE AIR SHOW.
swartzautoman 4 months ago
SUCK IT BITCHES, I DONT CARE WHAT YA THINK, I WAS THERE!
swartzautoman 4 months ago
@swartzautoman
Stop your crying. It wasn't a sonic boom. It was a jet that flew by. At that range there would be no doubt and the camera would have been shaking wildly. It's a BOOM!
yanksguy23 3 months ago
He did not go super sonic....it's amazing how many people can't tell the difference!
bsullivan161 4 months ago
and where´s the sonic boom??
TheSheik71 5 months ago
Shoulda learned, to play on tha gee-tar BOOOM
DeAdiSSu3 5 months ago
Hey smart guy...not a sonic boom!
PHLPHX350 6 months ago
Not a sonic boom....nice try though!
bsullivan161 6 months ago
Sond to fast and to up to speed with the plane
Joey44J 6 months ago
thats not sonic boom.:they are not allowed to break the sound barrier at any air show if they did it would break windows in the area and may also cause hearing loss(niiicceeeeee) what you heard was jusssttt under the sound barrier a lil boom but nice enough to give you a stiff one
jsmoothbx 6 months ago
No sonic boom there sorry to say..... Cameraman would have jumped out of his skin if that had been supersonic. Most of the airshow sonic boom vids on you tube are not supersonic and when they do go through the barrier it's at high altitude... Check out mythbusters sonic boom vid for real low flying sonic boom's..
SavyBajaBuster 7 months ago
I should've learned to play the guitar...I should've learned to fly a fighter jet!!
ryanspeed 10 months ago
I wish they made awesome mistakes like this at the air shows I go to :(
Fourteen88SoCal 10 months ago
Money for nothing :o))
The29fulcrum 11 months ago
dire straights lol.
MegaTICKLET 1 year ago
I want my MTV!
anonymous812 1 year ago
Dire Strails Fit to it!
TomekKogutah 1 year ago
you woud be deaf if that was a sonic boom
david0452 1 year ago
i used to think that all these videos of sonic booms were real, until I heard one in real life. obama came to seattle and a small plane breached the airspace, only to be met by f15's at full speed.... they shook all of the puget sound. I didn't hear the boom in your video, sorry but I don't think it happened.
mbudd121 1 year ago
not a sonic boom. change the title!
hexie27 1 year ago
not a full sonic boom, certain parts of the plane start to break the sound barrier first because of the airflow around it is faster( wing tips, tail tips) and gives u the mini-boom, but until the full drag of the airframe passes through it will not happen
milesg130 1 year ago
that sounded like one of my precious farts! :O
yoboss1049 1 year ago
he was tring to do the pressure cloud that happens right befor mach.
it was a very hot day, the plane was at a low level and the humidity was also low.
im sure thoes conditions its a little harder to do the cloud.
i know sonic booms are not alowed at air shows, thats why this vid was worth posting.
i think he was tring to get the pressure cloud going and just pushed it a tad bit to far.
swartzautoman 1 year ago
@swartzautoman do u think he got in trouble
Fighterpilot1011 6 months ago
That's no sonic boom. It's prohibited except over certain areas to break the sound barrier over land.
beebec77 1 year ago
I'll have to agree with everyone else. That IS NOT a sonic boom. Besides, pilots are restricted from producing a sonic boom at air shows by the FAA. Not sure what would have happened to this pilot if he did produce a sonic boom at that level, that close to people, but I'm sure he wouldn't have liked it and it would have involved sitting on his butt and not flying jets for a good long while.
corebare 2 years ago
that looks like punta gorda airshow
daddydeal 2 years ago
nope, this was at Columbia MO
i used to live in Florida out in Cape Coral, very close to Punta Gorda.
i always thought that wa a stupid name for a town, its spanish for "fat bitch"
swartzautoman 2 years ago 2
@swartzautoman It stands for "fat point" not "fat bitch"...common misconception. I fly into that airport all the time.
EPLchelseafc 1 year ago
@EPLchelseafc still, its a funny name for a town
swartzautoman 1 year ago
thats not a sonic boom . just going fast
xXStarkeyXx 2 years ago 2
sorry no boom there, nice video and the plane sounds great though
skoobdaer 2 years ago 2
a direct build up of pressure seen as water vapour or vapour cone. an instand buildup op this pressure sounds like a soft bassy boom, but a soundbarrier break sounds like likeawhispr typed under me. get the difference ?
Yamhal 2 years ago
I'll put it this way, you would NOT have to guess whether or not you've heard a sonic boom. Doesn't remotely sound like a sonic boom happened here. Usually when *audibly* captured with a video camera, the sonic boom will make a distinct (and very loud) CRACK.. the boom you'll feel reverberating in your chest, and at that altitude a window or two nearby might break, etc.. No boom in this vid.
Note that military brats that grew up in the 70's can remember hearing sonic booms all the time.
likeawhispr 2 years ago 22
@likeawhispr i remember in the mid 80`s always heard sonic booms now never
jmecrg 1 year ago
@likeawhispr The audio cuts which makes me think that there was a boom. Poor quality recording equipment couldn't handle it.
Jcsthird 4 months ago
was this at the Rockford airshow
JKSK8ERLIVE 2 years ago
I have a sonic boom between my legs bigger than this !!!
supa3ek 2 years ago 13
AHHHHHHHHHHH
good one squidward
bunbeater42 2 years ago
@supa3ek Why...cuz you get it up to the backstreet boys faster than the speed of sound....as this flight was sub-sonic and all.....
cap10moman 9 months ago
Not a sonic boom... you'd know! Things break including ears drums when that low... ask the navy deck apes about a supersonic fly-by. lol
Cooterrob 2 years ago
he was tring to do the pressure cloud that happens right befor mach.
it was a very hot day, the plane was at a low level and the humidity was also low.
im sure thoes conditions its a little harder to do the cloud.
i know sonic booms are not alowed at air shows, thats why this vid was worth posting.
i think he was tring to get the pressure cloud going and just pushed it a tad bit to far.
swartzautoman 2 years ago
i reckon he was sitting on Mach 0.9, he was pretty close i reckon.
SuperRaptor22 2 years ago
u reckon alotta things dnt u
FTomcat89 2 years ago
The Tornado fighter jet , the Eurofighter Typhoon , the F- 14 , the F-15 , the F-22 , are louder than the F-18 jet .....
69478283 2 years ago
breaking the sound barrier over north america is prohibited according to usaf and rcaf only over water
ericg83z 2 years ago
no aircraft is ever allowed to break the sound barrier in an airshow. the FAA would never allow that in a public place, like an airshow. so NO it wasn't a sonic boom.
chomidore3 2 years ago
i beleive it was a sonic boom
gtamythfnder 2 years ago
It's just delayed sound.
qwertdr 2 years ago
hmmmm i dont know wat to beleive now lol
gtamythfnder 2 years ago
A sonic boom has nothing to do with the engine noise - this is delayed engine noise.
A boom is well a boom, a clear defined burst of noise. It's probably better described as a sonic bang, as it used to be called.
qwertdr 2 years ago
I'd Add Tornado and Typhoon.
They have a very great Engines and they are too noise
MrQuaam 2 years ago
Well, from my speakers, it sounds like a boom, but obviously you'd have to be there at the show to "feel" it. Was that a Legacy Hornet? Or a Super Hornet? Normally it's a mach .99 pass.
BTW, soccerfsucks, the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-22 Raptor are both louder than the F/A-18 A,B,C and D Hornets, and the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet...
Nice vid though!
mlhbrx96 2 years ago
that was not a sonic boom, the f-18 is the loudest plane we have and a sonic boom wouldve been shorter and alot louder. they are not aloud to have sonic booms at public appearences like that
soccerfsucks 2 years ago
listen to some of the other flybys, this is totally different.
ac27272727 2 years ago
I totally agree that was a sonic boom.
ac27272727 2 years ago
i know that was a sonic boom becuse it was me in the aircraft i was the pilot
looks911 2 years ago
A real sonic boom is 2 bangs and a longer jet noise.
CidSilverWing 2 years ago 2
And everyone at this airshow would be deaf if this was real.
Jasonhb07 2 years ago
definitely not a sonic boom...
CapStar362 3 years ago
put
f-18 breaking sound barrier
into the search tab.
the first video that comes up should be 11 seconds long
thats what it sounded like in person
i recorded my video with a cheep Canon Powershot camera, and it couldn't pick up the deep boom.
swartzautoman 3 years ago
i know that pilots are not allowed to break sound barriers at air shows!
thats why i thaught it was cool.
that was not the end of his rutine, but the second he did that it was like he slammed on the breaks, made a bee line for the first runway he could line up with, and landed.
it was very obvious that he was yelled at.
if any of you had been there(like i keep telling you that "i" was) younot be arguing about it beaing a sonic boom.
im telling you, it was DEAFENING.
swartzautoman 3 years ago
Having served on an aircraft carrier for 6 years and witnessed hundereds of sonic booms,and knowing fighters are not allowed to break sound barriers at air shows,that WAS NOT a sonic boom it would have been a thousand times louder than that.sorry
towndrunk1234 3 years ago
i completely agree with you i fly an f-18s for the Canadian Air force, and have done a number of them my self and heard a number of them and that definitely not a sonic boom
b4igetu 3 years ago
You are correct , sir..
oldupchuck2 3 years ago
the pilet was tring to that cloud thing that the f18 does right under mach 1.
as soon as he got over top of us it was a deafening loud BOOM.
i took this video with a cheep canon power shot camera so it didn't pick up the ddep octive of the hard boom too well.
i lived in Las Veags NV with in 2 miles of Nelis AFB for 4 years, i know the diference between a jet fling by feal fast and a sonic boom.
once again, i was there in person and took this video myself.
im very sure about what i heard
swartzautoman 3 years ago
WHAT!, are you kidding me.
i was there, i took this video in person.
i know what a sonic boom is.
maybe you don't know what a sonic boom is or your just not listening to the right sound.
swartzautoman 3 years ago
hey man. I think it was already flying Supersonic.. a sonic boom is only at the one moment that he passes the sound barrier. this one is clearly already flying Mach 1.1+
jeffreyklm 3 years ago
Not true. Simply put, once supersonic, wavefront trailing the plane will give "sonic boom" after the plane passes.
NOT just at "moment of going supersonic." In fact, some points on airfoils will experience supersonic flow before airframe hits Mach 1.
woodscritter 2 years ago
NOT a sonic boom
flyboy0504 3 years ago