Sonic Boom
 

Today on the west coast, at around 10:50 - 11:00 (in just a few minutes) the space shuttle will be reentering the atsmosphere. There should be a couple of sonic booms.

I just saw a video yesterday of a f-18 hornet breaking the sound barrier.

Sonic Booms are cool. :thumbsup

I hope they are really loud. (it depends on atmospheric pressure.)

im here and waiting, tnx...

Nice.

I used to go sailing in the sf bay near alameda naval base (before it closed) and f-18's used to do touch and go practice...

They'd fly over the boat at about 600 feet and 10 seconds later you'd hear them go over, it was deafening...and sonic booms to boot.

my place got shook pretty hard by a couple sonic booms a little while after 9/11. Jets were scrambled when some retard tried to get into the cockpit of a plane. Those booms scared the fuck out of me, had me thinking another attack or something was happening in chicago.

I dont know if it just happened but it just felt like someone punched my wall twice from the outside. No more than 3/4 apart from eachother....

Just felt the fucker Scared the fuck out of me

heard it too - funny - went outside to see if some nut was doing some strange shit. then i came back and read this...lol

keev, was it how i explained??? i didnt expect it to be so harsh and quick. I thought it would be more bassy and deep...

And BTW... where are you guys located that felt it??

Yeah it was nice.

Studio City here.

two short punches, yes (but quite powerful).

http://www.truthorfiction.com/images/jet.jpg

For those of you that heard it... This is what it looks like

Thats the space shuttle that came into the atmosphere?

now thats some cool shit..it shook the whole office here

No that looks like an f-18 Hornet. The space shuttle is much larger which is why the boom was louder. He's just showing you what it looks like when the sound barrier is broken.

Here is a video of it.

http://www.eng.vt.edu/fluids/msc/gal...onden/f14.mpeg

the reason you hear two booms is because the nose of the shuttle and the tail break the sound barrier, just about second apart from each other.

I read that if you could travel just behind it, at the same speed, that you would hear a series of booms, like a giant machine gun.

since we are on the ground, (and not traveling at the speed of sound) we only hear one boom. Or if it's the space shuttle, you hear two.

About blew out our windows here,
extremely loud

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i just experienced a sonic boom in oliver's bathroom....

LOL. I was outside walking my dog when it happened... he's a little fuck an he jumped about a foot in the air when it happened.

That is one cool pic of that f-18... gonna check out the video now...

that video was fucking cool. thanks Redshoe. :thumbsup

We grew up with them... until they got to the point that they really started shattering windows and even knick kancks in peoples houses and the Feds finally stopped it from happening after paying for damages all over. lol

The planes altitude has alot to do with how loud, deep and long it takes to reach the ground as well as the atmosphere. We rarely noticed them in the 60's unless they were exceptionally loud. :winkwink: