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Everywhere the plane is supersonic, it emits the boom. Your question implies that the only boom is when you "go super-sonic." http://physics.stackexchange.com/
by sounds 11y ago
Everywhere the plane is supersonic, it emits the boom. Your question implies that the only boom is when you "go super-sonic."
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/68354/is-a-sonic-boom-a-one-time-bang-or-a-continuous-noise http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/68354/is-a-sonic-...
Would a Mach 1 plane hear a boom if overtaken by a Mach 3 plane?
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/17243/does-a-mach-1-plane-hear-a-sonic-boom-from-a-mach-3-plane-overtaking-him http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/17243/does-a-mac...
I understand why you got downvoted, but I don't think the question was actually repellant. If it were at the top of the thread it would be annoying but here I find it a fun thought experiment.
- bertil 11y agoDidn’t get down-voted overall so fine on that end. I actually never though of the existence of a continuous cone of focus outside of the plane — the graph I had seen were all focused on the whether the plane heard it. I guess an alternative option would be to find routes above the polar circle, or through the narrow of Central america — but the increased distance would make it less interesting at “just” Mach 2.2.