Sentences with phrase «sonic booms caused»
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.
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It is analogous to the sonic boom caused by an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound.
Not exact matches
Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»
Its main goal is to demonstrate that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of sound without creating the intense shock waves that trail behind the aircraft to cause a sonic boom.
When the object has passed over the observer, the pressure disturbance waves (Mach waves) radiate toward the ground, causing a sonic boom.