Shuttle Endeavor emits sound of 2 sonic booms

Two sonics booms captured on NASA TV
11.30.2008

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[ReadyToMealSqueal]

man, sonic booms use to scare the shit out of me during my tour in Kosovo, you didn't see the jets but you heard the almighty bang  over head...

[Lachausis]

@ReadyToMealSqueal I can imagine. In possible combat/conflict zone it could scare anyone. Sounds like an explosion.

[ReadyToMealSqueal]

I mean we never actually got told what it was but later in the conflict after we moved over the border we realised they were sonic booms possible off of American spy planes traveling at extremely high speed so fast they are gone with in a matter of seconds.

[Lachausis]

@ReadyToMealSqueal That would give away their possible presence. Could be patrolling NATO aircraft simply breaking into Mach 1 upon entering or leaving the combat zone. Or maybe even Serb planes?

[Lachausis]

All the aircraft, that are capable of breaking into Mach 1, generate twin (2) sonic booms. But sometimes a factor like the length of the particular aircraft prohibits us from hearing the both of them. Now the parts of the aircraft, that generate these shock waves are the nose and the tail. Since the distance between the tail and the nose is bigger on the Shuttles than on the fighter jets, we can hear the both sonic booms. The same was with Concorde passenger airliners.

[Lachausis]

@Zapppo Troll. It was recorded from live stream.

[ReadyToMealSqueal]

@Lachausis Yeah well all thought it was serb artillery air bursting over our heads

[Lachausis]

@vplehweIT Hmm. I'm not specialist and I will not even pretend to be able to speculate on this matter. But we still hear only one (in reality there are two) sonic boom for combat jets, be it above the sea level or 1 km, or even a greater distance, away. The distance still hasn't helped in that case to separate both booms.

[enigma800]

@Damnblastify That's awesome, LOL!

[Damnblastify]

@enigma800 When I was a small child my parents had a caravan (trailer) at a place called Heacham, Norfolk, UK and jets would go supersonic over The Wash (estuary here in the UK) and the sonic booms would move the caravan! Very exciting :-)

[enigma800]

@matt876mma I live in an area of Southern California where the Shuttle would fly over when it was landing here instead of Florida. The video does that double sonic boom no justice at all. In reality, it's like a cannon going off. On several rare occasions, they came in over the Pacific Ocean and directly over my neighborhood. The sonic booms were louder than thunder. You felt the concussion of the sound waves go through you. It's a wild experience.

[matt876mma]

on nasa tv, you only hear 2 little pops, the people standing outside their house hear holy mother of fuck big bangs...... i'd love to have hear'd them for myself, but guess i'll never get the chance :(. unless the uk starts a shuttle program , yeah right ,lol. We havnt even perfected our bus service .