F-14 Going SuperSonic Between Two Aircraft Carriers

[nigel181]

Straight up BadAss.

[thetrolone]

the plane is clearly russian and the ships are indian

[RetSquid]

@thetrolone

I thought they were from Switzerland....

[hoodstarx1]

how come the water moves out the way

[TheAmericarulz]

The other ship is NOT an aircraft carrier  me guessing i think its a destroyer

[TigerClaws12894]

that's subsonic xD

[SwampAshHSS]

i didn't see the air compress.

[suelo88]

looks very slow for super sonic i think

[NickelbackFanatic1]

omg talk about Doppler effect dam*

[vettes2]

It is going supersonic. Not only did the announcer of the show tell us so but anyone there watching can verify. The pilots would fly by and there would be absoutely no sound until they were past the ship. In fact it played tricks on your mind to see this massive plane approaching, not hearing anything, having it directly in front of you and then a good ways past you before you heard anything, I mean not even a peep. Then there was this thundering sound. It was actually kind of creapy.

[callofduty4ghillie]

if you watch the jet on the aircraft carrier it moves because the plane is going so fast

[focusboyfocus]

It could´ve been going supersonic, it just broke the sound barrier before. Also we can apreciate the delay of the sound

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

this plane is 100% sure faster than the sound.

When a subsonic plane is coming in you hear the throaty sound of the nozzle and whilst passing by the frequency of that sound becomes lower because of the Doppler-effect.

Here you hear nothing. Then a boom and then the sound of the turbines.For your information the sonic-boom is not a single event whilst going supersonic.This results from the Mach-conus hitting the ear.Every supersonic plane will do that crack passing by even when its ss for hours.

[igniteamf]

That wasn't even close to supersonic..

[zdlx]

OK... let's get one thing straight here.

That jet is NOT at supersonic speed. If the pilot were stupid enough to attempt this at the altitude in this video, the aircraft would simply disintegrate. He's pushing that jet fast, but it ain't supersonic speed. End of homily.

[andrewfl2480]

the other naval vessel is a guided missile cruiser. I served on USS Spruance DD-963 the first and finest of its class. My she rest in Davey Jones Locker.

[SubMitch24]

...davey jones locker? ARE YOU A PIRATE?!??!?

[gto400m6]

@andrewfl2480 I believe that the cruiser is the USS Normandy.

[fuwad84]

supersonic speed is awesome, I love how the sound dragged behind it, you see the plane pass by than seconds later "PHPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFHHHHHHHHHH­HFfffffhhhhhhhhh"

[weffew]

The plane's not supersonic. It'd have casued major problems for the ships if he were. There's no shockwave on the front of the plane, and there's no sonic boom.

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[mxracerxxx157]

The "shockwave" is a buildup of compressed soundwaves, and was clearly heard. Only under certain atmospheric conditions does it become visable (when the pressure difference between the two sides causes a drop in temperature below the dewpoint based on humidity and ambient temp), however, the pressure wave is clearly visable on the surface of the water.

[em88888]

That ripple-effect on the water occurs way before the speed of sound is broken if flying low enough. In this video, the f14 is not at the speed of sound. He is close, definitely flirting with it, but if you pause the video right when you hear him, he isn't quite at the camera yet. Meaning you can hear the f14 a split second before he gets past the camera. Which can ONLY mean he was NOT traveling at or faster than the speed of sound. He is damn close though

[supersmash43]

@em88888 then how fast do you think it was travleing? About 300 m/s?

[Toolpusher]

He's not flying between two Carriers, the Ship to Port is a Destroyer escort. Spruance Class, I think.