Author Topic: Interesting image (sound barrier being broken) (Read 474 times)

AKcurly · « **on:** May 01, 2004, 11:43:34 PM »

http://www.rense.com/general8/boom.htm

curly

StabbyTheIcePic · « **Reply #1 on:** May 02, 2004, 12:15:47 AM »

Welcome to 1999!

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 02, 2004, 04:35:07 AM »

Actually that pic is not neccesarily Mach 1. It just mean the plane is transonic (compressibility). It looks really cool to see them do that in person. The vapor isn't static, it flickers and shrinks and expands really rapidly.

214thCavalier · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2004, 05:09:35 AM »

It claims to have been taken at just 75 feet above the ocean, but that photo looks like high altitude with a cloud layer below to me.

Replicant · « **Reply #4 on:** May 02, 2004, 05:43:08 AM »

I saw a similar thing way back in 1983/84 at RAF Mildenhall. Two F-111s flew over with the same type of vapour and then you heard two almighty loud booms. I thought it was cannon fire or something like that (I was about 10 or 11 years old) until someone told me that they'd accidently broke the sound barrier. Guess they got in BIG trouble for that.... it's illegal over main land Britain.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 02, 2004, 08:36:08 AM »

I used to have an old VW bug that did that all the time.

Then again, maybe it was bad rings...

eskimo

Mini D · « **Reply #6 on:** May 02, 2004, 09:03:20 AM »

It's a cool effect. The super hornet must have an incredibly accurate way to tell airspeed (and excellent speed control), because it's the only plane I've seen try to pull this stunt at airshows.

MiniD

Ecke-109- · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2004, 09:27:00 AM »

Nice pic,
in the late 70s/ early 80s there where a lot of such 'booms' to be heard over germany. I remember very well.

Ecke

culero · « **Reply #8 on:** May 02, 2004, 09:56:00 AM »

Quote

Originally posted by StabbyTheIcePic
Welcome to 1999!

Hehehe....yeah

culero (remembers seeing this posted several times since then

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Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** May 02, 2004, 01:51:51 PM »

Hornets... Pfft...

MaddDog · « **Reply #10 on:** May 02, 2004, 02:03:20 PM »

F-14 IMO is the most beautiful Navy fighter.

mechanic · « **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2004, 02:19:39 PM »

i dont know, i once met the womens UK navy boxing champion and believe it or not she was damn hot. shame she was about 20 years older than me and harder than my dad;)

RTR · « **Reply #12 on:** May 02, 2004, 05:04:04 PM »

dang!
Train derailed...disregard
RTR