Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air...
by Gare on Friday March 22, 2024 @04:49PM
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This seems bit excessive, Concorde booms were purportedly about 105-110 dB on the ground when cruising at altitude (around 60 000 ft).
I've personally only experienced sonic booms from MiG-21s. They are not painfully loud, but surely startling. They are very deep and make the windows rattle.
Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air...
by hermitdev on Friday March 22, 2024 @04:29PM
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My childhood home was in the flight path for NASA when they were given the Blackbird after it's official retirement. We also routinely had fire-retardant bombers flying eye level close enough you could read the tail numbers off with a naked eye (we were on the side of a mountain, bombers flew down the valley).
Point is: the Blackbird, flying at altitude, sounded like a tree fell on the house . Big crash/thud suddenly. The bombers, though loud, were a steady build up until they passed, then quietly faded away. The Blackbird, I literally remember leaving the house to make sure there wasn't a hole in the wall or roof.
Re:Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Air...
by sandworm101 on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:31PM
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Blackbird was a beast, literally the fastest plane out there and it never really slowed down. Compare shuttle, which came in much faster but few ever complained about its boom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests
If I'm doing my calculations correct, their targeted sound pressure levels of 50-100 pascal is equivalent to 127-133 decibels, which is over the threshold of discomfort for most, and getting close to the threshold of pain.