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Look: NASA Photos Capture Experimental Supersonic Aircraft as it Noiselessly Breaks the Sound Barrier
The Debrief ^ | March 06, 2025 | Micah Hanks

Posted on 03/07/2025 9:25:19 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
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.

They cannot micturate down my neck and say it is raining.

If there is no noise, by definition, there is no sound barrier broken.

21 posted on 03/07/2025 6:49:09 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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“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.”

Who or what was traveling at the speed of sound that was able to take the photograph.

I say again, they cannot micturate down my neck and say it is raining..

22 posted on 03/07/2025 6:53:12 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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“Who or what was traveling at the speed of sound that was able to take the photograph.”

OP article. Paragraph eleven.


23 posted on 03/07/2025 6:59:26 PM PST by TexasGator ('1I1.I'')
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“If there is no noise, by definition, there is no sound barrier broken.”

By definition it has no reference to noise. It references the region of increased drag.


24 posted on 03/07/2025 7:02:52 PM PST by TexasGator ('1I1.I'')
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To: Red Badger
The XB-1 captured in Schlieren imagery the moment it breaks the sound barrier, while producing no sonic boom (Credit: NASA/Boom Supersonic).

“This image makes the invisible visible—the first American-made civil supersonic jet breaking the sound barrier,” said Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, in a statement released this week.

What would the imagery have looked like if there was a sonic boom when it broke the sound barrier?

There guys need to do more than just saying, "trust me, the emperor really does have clothes."

25 posted on 03/07/2025 7:10:30 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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I read it and still don't see a control fluid refraction of a sonic boom and a fluid refraction of no sonic boom.

The waveform presented looks just like every other point of breaking the sound barrier with a sonic boom.   Tell me what I am missing?   Was it flying at 15 miles?

26 posted on 03/07/2025 7:23:01 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: TexasGator
OK, so I did a search and saw this:
For an aircraft flying at a supersonic speed of about Mach 1.2 or less at an altitude above 35,000 feet, the shockwaves being produced typically do not reach the ground, so no sonic boom is heard.
Why didn't they just say that instead all of this stupid hype?
27 posted on 03/07/2025 7:27:52 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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“Why didn’t they just say that instead all of this stupid hype?”

They did ...

Article: This allowed them to better gauge the occurrence of what is known as Mach cutoff, a phenomenon that occurs when a sonic boom refracts in the atmosphere, preventing it from reaching the ground.


28 posted on 03/07/2025 7:48:01 PM PST by TexasGator ('1I1.I'')
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Please translate how
This allowed them to better gauge the occurrence of what is known as Mach cutoff, a phenomenon that occurs when a sonic boom refracts in the atmosphere, preventing it from reaching the ground.
means, "for an aircraft flying at a supersonic speed of about Mach 1.2 or less at an altitude above 35,000 feet, the shockwaves being produced typically do not reach the ground, so no sonic boom is heard."

If that is a known fact, why did they have to better gauge the occurrence of what is known as Mach cutoff...   It is a simple fact that the higher the altitude (distance) the greater the attenuation of the sound wave.

29 posted on 03/08/2025 12:21:16 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

The aircraft sounds like this as it breaks the sound barrier: shhhhshush


30 posted on 03/08/2025 2:23:27 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: higgmeister

This, this, this!

Its gonna be in high stratosphere so there aint nobody on the surface gonna hear it, so.......WHY?


31 posted on 03/08/2025 7:53:33 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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So it still creates a sonic boom.


32 posted on 03/08/2025 2:25:30 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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