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ANOTHER SONIC BOOM REAL ONE NOT JUST VAPOR REAL BOOM

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[ohrian]

That wasn't a sonic boom guys. A sonic boom will blow out windows from miles away they are so loud.

[sniper763]

yeah...your point...this was on a boat

[MR01cobrasvt]

Hydrodynamics The vapor cone forms as the shockwaves approach the speed of sound and the pressure drops and the shockwaves move rearward. A visible vapor cone has nothing to do with the aircraft breaking the barrier. It simply means that its getting close. That was a sonic boom heard in the video.

[gixzo]

@KoolSmartAzn Vapor cones don't just happen when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier. They can form at a slower speed. They just form because the air pressure around the aircraft drops dramatically. There was no sonic boom noise. That sound was just the plane itself.



[analogWeapon]

@ohrian i understand. i put words in your mouth. sorry about that. i was just trying to address the common misconception that there was something beyond simple amplitude that made glass more susceptible in the vicinity of a compression event like a sonic boom. i'm guessing that besides the fact that military stopped supersonic flight near civilian areas, the main reason so many windows were broken back then was more due to rattling and striking sills than actual pressure waves.

[ohrian]

@analogWeapon I grew up in the 50's and 60's when the military routinely broke the sound barrier over civilian homes. So many windows were broken that they had to restrict where military aircraft could break the sound barrier. That would explain why you have never experienced a real sonic boom up close (unless you are military yourself). Think of a lightning bolt hitting yards from you. That is a sonic boom. I never said they "automatically" broke windows.

[analogWeapon]

@ohrian actually that's sort of a myth. sonic booms are definitely very very loud, but they don't automatically break glass as much as people would like the think.

[OmgItsJeffo]

that is a real sonic boom..

why do you think it made the cone and the characteristic 'boom'.

and as for breaking apart, that's rediculous.

[meak13]

that's exactly why it's not allowed to be done

[edcoondog]

haha. yeah. i guess you must be right. i must be a liar. youre ignorant. end of conversation.

[edcoondog]

thank god your father wasn't a doctor! would you try to operate on people?

the shock wave doesn't have the same dissipation as normal sound. they're almost as loud from a distance as they are close up. which is why it's not allowed to be broken over pop. areas regardless of alt. i've never heard anywhere of people blowing up from it. the occasional window or eardrum, yes. but "most things blowing up"? i think not.

[edcoondog]

ok then mr. wizard. show me a vid of most things "blowing up" because of a sonic boom. and please don't try to "explain" things scientific to me without some sort of credentials. i'm a pilot and an A&P mechanic and have been around alot of jets and choppers in the last 12 years.