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Supersonic Flight, Sonic Booms

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Uploaded on Jun 16, 2010

Video by Glenn Pew (http://www.glennpew.com/) for AVweb.com.

Clip Credit: 0:14-0:20 Andy Painter
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Sound travels at about 760 miles per hour, or 340 meters per second and about 661 knots on an average day at sea level. And sometimes, you can almost see it. Going close to that speed through air can cause some unusual visual effects. This compiled footage includes F-14s, standard and Blue Angels F-18s, plus the SR-71 and an Atlas Rocket launch. AVweb contacted sources at NASA to research the phenomena.

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  • dnnswlvs

    chuck norris can break the speed of light

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  • zoenjay90

    Had a super sonic boom in cambs today shook my house!

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  • junichi izac isla

    taas men lipad jet plane po ng jetplane nyo

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  • Lizzy Hoover

    Amazing

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  • MechanicalWar

    That's 261,304,704 M/s I don't think he can, even though he may be chuck norris.

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  • anonymousphox

    you cannot hear the aircraft approaching you. The first thing you'll hear is the sonic boom, and by that time the airplane will be in your face. It sounds just like a super close thunderstrike, I've felt it myself at an airshow (thunderbirds team) scared the shit out me since they flew from behind.

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  • Manutallu

    That was deep, you completly deserve my thumb up

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  • tatuhey

    fuark the sky looked distorted

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  • conan middleton

    Yep, because it is travelling faster than the sound it is producing.

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  • MisterLEM0NS

    In theory, when one approaches the speed of light, time slows to a stop.

    So in a secondary theory, CHUCK NORRIS IS TIMELESS.

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