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"...an aircraft will generate a sonic boom along the length of its flight path at a rate of one mile per thousand feet." Can someone explain what is being meas
by wck0 8y ago
"...an aircraft will generate a sonic boom along the length of its flight path at a rate of one mile per thousand feet."
Can someone explain what is being measured as one mile per thousand feet?
- zacharycohn 8y agoOne mile wide per thousand feet in altitude?
- sandworm101 8y agoDoesnt matter. Sonic booms have virtually no real power. All the tales of them breaking windows and starting avalanches are pure myth. (See the anti-concorde media campaign.) Forest fires release atomic bomb-levers of energy. A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.
- danielvf 8y agoHere’s the Brazilian Supreme Court windows breaking from a sonic boom. https://youtu.be/43Kl7c2yU3g https://youtu.be/43Kl7c2yU3g
- sandworm101 8y agoYes. One or two breakings here and there when all the conditions are perfect. Look at the mythbusters tests with the usaf. They came to nothing. Ive sat under many an f18 doing a mach1+ flyby (rcaf). Car stereos create more power, and worldwide probably break more glass.
- mikey_p 8y agoUpon looking at that video again, I have to wonder if the building design and construction didn't play into that as well, with the very overhang taking energy reflected off the ground and directing it back down towards the windows.
- windows_tips 8y ago>A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself. May be all that's required [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
- mcqueenjordan 8y agoYou keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- windows_tips 8y agowut
- dang 8y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
- windows_tips 8y agohttps://www.definitions.net/definition/unsubstantive https://www.definitions.net/definition/unsubstantive Not sure what you mean. My post appears to be entirely appropriate to the comment it replied to. Do you know what they were referring to? Unfortunately, this comment thread appears to be censored on this platform, so I'm unsure I'll ever receive an answer.
- danielvf 8y agoI agree that the post you were replying to makes no sense as a reply to your previous comment. I'm guessing that that author meant to reply to the poster saying that sonic booms were mythical, and did not mean to reply to your post. Your comment, "wut", although it would be totally appropriate in a conversation between two people, is just more noise when read by the thousands of people who read through the comments. When people make irrelevant short replies, it's usually best to ignore them and let other other people downvote them.
- WalterBright 8y agoI remember sonic booms in the 1960's in the midwest. They weren't worthy of note.