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There's lots of water near NYC and SF so maybe you do your sonic boom over the water and then turn towards land?
by dsjoerg 8y ago
There's lots of water near NYC and SF so maybe you do your sonic boom over the water and then turn towards land?
- itp 8y agoThat's not how a sonic boom works. A sonic boom doesn't occur just at the moment that an object exceeds the speed of sound; it's a continuous phenomenon that is experienced by a stationary observer as a momentary event. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
- hamandcheese 8y agoThe sonic boom is continuous at speeds above Mach 1