Posted on 03/07/2025 9:25:19 AM PST by Red Badger
Aviation Ping!......................
I’ve been using this technology to develop my quiet flatuence AKA known as the Silent Killer.
Had to look it up, didn’t realize that the Concorde was a UK/France government funded plane - thought it was non-govt. I was wrong.
I wonder how they got rid of the sonic boom. My guess is it’s still there, just not very loud.
Back in the 80’s sonic booms would cause head crashes in the Hard Disk Drives of the day.
Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
another UAP. lol
I suspect more of a BS ping.
A local claimed that sonic booms were killing his chickens
SONIC BOOMS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING!
</sarc>
On earth the airports are very close to population centers. But going 500knots, it doesnt take very long for the plane to be well out of town. SO, why all this worry about quiet planes when we could just make it protocol to clear Mach 1.0 in certain places, yadda, yadda, yadda. It aint that far to out in the country, especially as the crow flys.
The change (increase) in atmospheric density with lower altitude causes the shock wave to refract upward, thus it never reaches the ground.
This is a result of the specific speed and altitude at which the shock wave is formed.
My department is researching the wall-shaking variety.
You can hear a sonic boom from a very long way off.
I am am reminded of Don Garlits’ words about Swamp Rat XXX, his streamlined dragster; something along the lines of poking a hole in the air and driving right through.
WHAT?!?! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!
“In a stunning series of images, NASA has revealed the moment an experimental supersonic aircraft broke the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom audible at ground level.”
It “broke” the sound barrier BEFORE the photos were taken.
This pop science article is poorly written because it seems support the incorrect premise that a “boom” is created where the aircraft goes through (Is this what you mean by “clears”?) Mach 1, like popping a balloon at that spot. In fact shock waves are produced and pushed along the entire supersonic flight segment, and are experienced all along the route as a Boom as the shock waves arrives.
Not sure if that is what you meant because it was ambiguous.
If the boom were severe and all over fly-over (Trump) country, we don’t want it. It would be another case of a taking from the many (quality of life in the country) for the benefit of the few. The R&D here is to make the shock wave minimal along the route.
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