Sentences with phrase «noise of sonic booms»

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While such an aircraft would traditionally create a sonic boom, NASA expects the new aircraft to create a sound of less than half the noise level — or more akin to the sound of a closing car door.

A series of earthshaking noises that left some residents on the East Coast wondering if they had lived through an earthquake yesterday afternoon were sonic booms caused by the testing of a fighter jet, officials said.

(Hankey noted that people who heard a noise as the meteor moved overhead could have been hearing the sonic boom or the explosion of the rock.)