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To: markomalley

Just something I remember from a few years ago. The only thing that I ever knew to make a double sonic boom... Was the Space Shuttle when it was re-entering the atmosphere.
I remember from watching enough NASA TV that the shuttle always made a double sonic boom when it came in over Cape Canaveral.

Just a thought.


9 posted on 12/07/2017 5:01:05 AM PST by hoagy62 ("It's not the whole world gone mad. Just the people in it.")
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To: hoagy62

Those are just booms from the craft returning from military missions to the moon and Mars. No biggie.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 5:03:15 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: hoagy62

I’ve heard the double shuttle boom. I got up early one morning while at Disney World and sat out on our balcony and listened. It was cloudy, so, I couldn’t see it.

It’s the difference from when the nose of the craft breaks the sound barrier vs when the stabilizer does.


23 posted on 12/07/2017 10:35:09 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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