Most people don’t understand sonic booms – but they’re the reason the plane you fly in doesn’t go faster.
As any plane flies, it pushes air out of its path, creating pressure waves.
When a plane flies FASTER than sound, the air molecules get compressed into bigger shock waves which our brain processes as a loud BOOM.
But a common misconception is: That boom doesn’t just happen once when the plane hits that speed. It boooooooooms the whole time, along the entire path of the plane!
That BOOOOM is the reason supersonic flight is banned over many countries today. But now, NASA is trying to build a quieter plane and bring back supersonic flight. We got to go see it, and you can watch our longer episode about what we saw…
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It makes sense that you dont hear the boom in the plane, considering youre going faster than the speed of sound
Would a sonic boom be heard by people on the ground from a 757 going supersonic at cruising altitude?
Isn't the stealth plane a fast plane that prevents that boom?
Yeah keep trying USA, you'll never crack it 😂😂😂😂😂😂
NASA just tell boing to make back the concord
Nice ❤
Smart and beautiful.
Always NASA… What about BOOM in NC? They made it first.
I didn't even know it was banned
My theory of first discovering sonic booms were just that the plane was so fast it overlaps and passes its own sound waves
How can a boom be a continuous sound, I don't understand how that can happen?
Didn't know there's 2 or y. Excellent vid
meanwhile me seeing this at night with full volume☠️☠️
Its boooommmm😂
You are she thor !
You make Science.. Why we fight.. why we love
It’s rainbow dash flying but he became a plane🎉
IWETB
Suppressed planes is interesting
No matter how smart…u r still a woman 😂
I would like to know more but I am not willing to fight for it
Boom Boom🥵
Here in US NC we hear these all the time
What would happen if you broke the sound barrier underwater
PLEASE COVER WHY THE BOOM FROM ROCKET REENTRY IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THE BOOM FROM AIRCRAFT
Please please please!!!
Ohhh so this is how rainbow dash can make the sonic boom😂
That boooom gave me a warm mommy vibes
Booooooom supersonic are bringing it back too 😂😂😂
They legit had the issue with trains and solved it in 1 year the shape of the plane has to change to accommodate and brake up the waves there is still a sonic boom your just to far away to here it
Unless design difference hulk otherwise implosion can crush like submarine goes over depth limit but rock with inertia drive and jet engine can
I cant stand this woman.
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Sorry, but I don't want to go that fast, even if it is quieter– on the outside.
Wooow your boyfriend is so fast
I'm okay with prioritizing just keeping the current planes from crashing. Seems to be a problem lately…
I absolutely love this channel
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Where I live, I continually hear booms from avalanche blasting. During winter, that is.
Boooo 👻
Booomboooooom😂
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I ztill dont undestand it
Moooooooov
This deservers 5 big booms
The reason why people think it only happens once instead of being continuous is that sonic booms have always been associated by the media to the breaking of the sound barrier, which happens only once. Even your video at the start does this, showing the breaking of the sound barrier and associating it with the sonic boom itself, instead of saying this is just the moment when the continuous sonic boom starts.
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