# Sonic Booms **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 6, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642 "2008-06-06T11:07:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/1 "2008-06-06T11:07:12Z")
When a plane goes twice the speed of sound what is the white cloud that forms around the plane? ![http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~heroux/images/f18_cone.jpg](http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~heroux/images/f18_cone.jpg) ![http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/6f/275px-F-18-diamondback_blast.jpg](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/6f/275px-F-18-diamondback_blast.jpg) Cool pix, i actally already know the answer but without searching does anybody know? ---
**Author:** ![Bovice](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bovice/32/5084_2.png) [@Bovice](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bovice)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/2 "2008-06-06T11:08:50Z")
breaking the sound barrier i believe? ---
**Author:** ![PureXTC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purextc/32/5223_2.png) [@PureXTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PureXTC)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/3 "2008-06-06T11:09:22Z")
They look like afterburners? ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/4 "2008-06-06T11:09:58Z")
NO NO there is a scientific explanation here a vid Anybody heard a sonic boom b4? pretty badass, i heard them in the adirondecks b4 ---
**Author:** ![Bovice](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bovice/32/5084_2.png) [@Bovice](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bovice)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/5 "2008-06-06T11:12:40Z")
“You can’t actually see the sound barrier. What you see is condensation caused by the pressure difference across the shock wave.” as quoted by that video… ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/6 "2008-06-06T11:13:38Z")
> [@croyishurr](#): > > “You can’t actually see the sound barrier. What you see is condensation caused by the pressure difference across the shock wave.” as quoted by that video… Word. I’m surprised people didn’t know that. Figured it was common knowledge. :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/7 "2008-06-06T11:19:36Z")
Well the sonic boom part is easy, the pressure difference i wasnt sure who’d know… Us engineers are all too familiar with it paulo This is mavrick requesting a flyby… ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/8 "2008-06-06T11:20:34Z")
> [@Oroc](#): > > Well the sonic boom part is easy, the pressure difference i wasnt sure who’d know… Us engineers are all too familiar with it paulo > > This is mavrick requesting a flyby… lol. Yeah that’s true. ICEMAN! ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/9 "2008-06-06T11:21:36Z")
more cool pix, i used to have hi-res ones… ![http://www.aviation-fr.info/militaire/murduson/F14%20Tomcat%20066.jpg](http://www.aviation-fr.info/militaire/murduson/F14%20Tomcat%20066.jpg) ![http://www.airforceworld.com/fighter/gfx/f14/f14_3.jpg](http://www.airforceworld.com/fighter/gfx/f14/f14_3.jpg) ![http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/04/f22_montage.jpg](http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/04/f22_montage.jpg) F-22’s are badass lookin planes I wish i could play the Top Gun song, flyyyyyy into to the danger zone! when u open this thread ---
**Author:** ![Denton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Denton](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Denton)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/10 "2008-06-06T11:21:40Z")
> [@Oroc](#): > > Anybody heard a sonic boom b4? pretty badass, i heard them in the adirondecks b4 Back in the 80’s they’d fly maneuvers over Lake Ontario and get a little too hot. You would swear to god that a bomb went off. Shook every window in the house and the dog wouldn’t come out for an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/11 "2008-06-06T11:22:34Z")
> [@Oroc](#): > > more pix, i used to have hi-res ones… > crazyshit.jpg WOW. ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/12 "2008-06-06T11:22:51Z")
Sonic booms are bad ass :tup: ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/13 "2008-06-06T11:23:59Z")
It’s obviously a tear in the space-time continuum as the plane reaches 88 miles an hour and goes back to the future so the pilot can get a sex change and father himself. WAT? ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/14 "2008-06-06T11:24:33Z")
lol fry ---
**Author:** ![maverick27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maverick27/32/4946_2.png) [@maverick27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maverick27)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/15 "2008-06-06T11:30:44Z")
someone say my name:wiggle: ---
**Author:** ![Oroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@Oroc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oroc)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/16 "2008-06-06T11:31:08Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > It’s obviously a tear in the space-time continuum as the plane reaches 88 miles an hour and goes back to the future so the pilot can get a sex change and father himself. > > WAT? lol hit the nail on the head! If i could go back in time i think i’d try to be a pilot in the airforce and get in one of these suckers… speed is life ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/17 "2008-06-06T11:33:50Z")
I went for a quick training mission in a f22 the the day. you dont see the white smoke from the cockpit btw WAT ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/18 "2008-06-06T11:34:04Z")
> [@Oroc"](#): > > When a plane goes twice the speed of sound The only have to go the speed of sound, not twice the speed of sound. And as was said, it’s instantaneous condensation from the pressure wave. ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/19 "2008-06-06T11:35:41Z")
Badassness. :tup: ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642/20 "2008-06-06T11:36:40Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > I went for a quick training mission in a f22 the the day. you dont see the white smoke from the cockpit btw > > WAT LOL; load of bullshit there… there is NO way… Only people who get to “ride” if a F-22 Raptor are the Pilots, and they have 100’s of hours in simulators and 1000’s of hours of flight time in other airframes before they are even allowed to get near the aircraft. This because there are no “trainer”/2-seat versions where a trainer/student/passenger can come with. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sonic-booms/49642.md?page=2)