sonic boom

     

The term sonic boom is commonly use to refer to the shocks caused by the supersonic flight of an aircraft. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding a lot like an explosion. Thunder is a type of natural sonic boom, created by the rapid heating and expansion of air in a lightning discharge .

Trivia about sonic boom

  • On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first
  • 2-word term for the loud noise that results when a jet flies faster than the speed of sound
  • The "Q" in QSST, a proposed 12-passenger luxury jet, stands for "quiet", as it wouldn't produce this 2-word sound
  • Shattering sound that accompanies breaking the sound barrier
  • When a plane travels faster than the speed of sound, it creates this thunderous noise
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew presents in a tunnel.) Wind tunnel experiments at Texas A&M are used to minimize the effects of this phenomenon that occur when airplanes pass Mach 1

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