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<blockquote data-quote="SRAD97750" data-source="post: 95447" data-attributes="member: 425"><p>"<span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #333333">All aircraft produce two booms one from the nose and one from the tail. As aircraft length is short, the distance between two releasing points of shock waves are smaller so the booms are generally heard as one. As shock waves spread across the landscape like a cone becoming larger and larger from the release point towards the rear, sonic booms are continuously created along the flight path. If you continued to move with the plane at the same supersonic speed you would hear continuous booms. Otherwise, you hear the booms only when the plane is above you.</span></span></span><p style="text-align: left">"</p><p></p><p>"S<span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">everal smaller shock waves can, and usually do, form at other points on the aircraft, primarily any convex points or curves, the leading wing edge and especially the inlet to engines. These secondary shockwaves are caused by the air being forced to turn around these convex points, which generates a shock wave in supersonic flow</span>"</p><p> </p><p>There is no "boom," there is only a constant sound that you happen to hear for a split second.</p><p>So the sound, of the aircraft "ripping" through the piled up air molecules, is constant. The pilots never hear the sonic boom though, they are ahead of the sound by the time the air "rips." So if you followed the aircraft you would hear it constantly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRAD97750, post: 95447, member: 425"] "[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#333333]All aircraft produce two booms one from the nose and one from the tail. As aircraft length is short, the distance between two releasing points of shock waves are smaller so the booms are generally heard as one. As shock waves spread across the landscape like a cone becoming larger and larger from the release point towards the rear, sonic booms are continuously created along the flight path. If you continued to move with the plane at the same supersonic speed you would hear continuous booms. Otherwise, you hear the booms only when the plane is above you.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][LEFT]"[/LEFT] "S[FONT=sans-serif]everal smaller shock waves can, and usually do, form at other points on the aircraft, primarily any convex points or curves, the leading wing edge and especially the inlet to engines. These secondary shockwaves are caused by the air being forced to turn around these convex points, which generates a shock wave in supersonic flow[/FONT]" There is no "boom," there is only a constant sound that you happen to hear for a split second. So the sound, of the aircraft "ripping" through the piled up air molecules, is constant. The pilots never hear the sonic boom though, they are ahead of the sound by the time the air "rips." So if you followed the aircraft you would hear it constantly. [/QUOTE]
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