Atlantis double sonic boom

Waiting on the roof of building 4840 at Dryden Flight Research Center for Atlantis to land - at the end of the video you can hear the characteristic double sonic boom

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• sts-117
• spaceshuttle
• atlantis
• sonicboom

[Lavenderrose73]

So do we hear the Sonic Boom when they first enter the (most dangerous part of) the atmosphere, or do we hear it after they've just come out of it?

[N22YF]

@Lavenderrose73 The shuttle makes a sonic boom the entire time it's flying supersonic through the atmosphere, which is up until right before it lands, but you only hear the sonic boom when the sonic boom passes you. (A sonic boom is basically a shockwave that moves with the aircraft.)

[Eternal575]

haha...I know those two. Isn't that Chris and Kia?

[N22YF]

lol, yeah, Chris and Kia.

[kmckoy13]

I agree with "bad take" and deleting 3 minutes of the video. This video took too long to show the reason why I wanted to view it in the first place

[kiov526]

Delete the first 3:00 minutes, then it would be good.

[showj0e]

Guile could do better...and it'd only take him 4 seconds.

[Lavenderrose73]

@N22YF Ooohh, ok! I didn't know it was like hearing a flyby. I thought it was simply marking the entrance of a layer of our atmosphere and that everyone within a certain radius would hear it at the same time! I always wanted to know exactly when they're in that "danger" zone so I could watch them come out of it. I remember hearing it as a child, and then at other times when i wasn't watching. I saw a landing live, but never a take off live that I can remember and I want to see BOTH with Atl.

[tigerswede3]

Um, can I have the three minutes back I just wasted to get to the end of this vid?

[sgtsn1per]

waste of time

[jaciuro]

Forward to about 3:10 and you will catch the sound. It moves the camera.

[NoisyPC]

Slim blonde does not automatically equal hot. Put your dicks away guys.

[goone1987]

lol