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<blockquote data-quote="SRAD97750" data-source="post: 95450" data-attributes="member: 425"><p><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">"</span><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">The strongest sonic boom ever recorded was 7,000 Pa (144 pounds per square foot) and it did not cause injury to the researchers who were exposed to it. The boom was produced by a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-4_Phantom_II" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="color: #0b0080">F-4</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"> flying just above the speed of sound at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m). In recent tests, the maximum boom measured during more realistic flight conditions was 1,010 Pa (21 pounds per square foot). There is a probability that some damage — shattered glass for example — will result from a sonic boom. Buildings in good repair should suffer no damage by pressures of 11 pounds per square foot or less. And, typically, community exposure to sonic boom is below two pounds per square foot. Ground motion resulting from sonic boom is rare and is well below structural damage thresholds accepted by the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Mines" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="color: #0b0080">U.S. Bureau of Mines</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"> and other agencies.</span><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">"</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRAD97750, post: 95450, member: 425"] [FONT=sans-serif]"[/FONT][FONT=sans-serif]The strongest sonic boom ever recorded was 7,000 Pa (144 pounds per square foot) and it did not cause injury to the researchers who were exposed to it. The boom was produced by a [/FONT][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-4_Phantom_II'][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]F-4[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=sans-serif] flying just above the speed of sound at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m). In recent tests, the maximum boom measured during more realistic flight conditions was 1,010 Pa (21 pounds per square foot). There is a probability that some damage — shattered glass for example — will result from a sonic boom. Buildings in good repair should suffer no damage by pressures of 11 pounds per square foot or less. And, typically, community exposure to sonic boom is below two pounds per square foot. Ground motion resulting from sonic boom is rare and is well below structural damage thresholds accepted by the [/FONT][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bureau_of_Mines'][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#0b0080]U.S. Bureau of Mines[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=sans-serif] and other agencies.[/FONT][SIZE=11px][FONT=sans-serif]"[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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