Timeline for Why can't sonic booms be heard at air shows?
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| Sep 29, 2023 at 2:56 | comment | added | DaCuteRaccoon | The only airshows I have went to are the Blue Angels, and they don't do supersonic. | |
| Mar 16, 2021 at 9:33 | comment | added | Volker Siegel | @RyanMortensen That is quite interesting, as it shows a direct argument why it is avoided even from a moderate hight that would be "very loud", but acceptable for adults. It is still to loud for children, even with full to protect the child. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 20:50 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | I'm not sure why some people are claiming supersonic flight is not allowed at an airshow, and implying this is true on our entire planet. I've been to multiple airshows that featured supersonic flight. They usually warn you first so you can cover your ears. After the sonic boom, you get to listen to the alarms of most nearby vehicles being triggered. And children crying. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 14:23 | comment | added | reirab | @RyanMortensen I worked at Arnold one summer during that period. I hadn't previously heard a sonic boom. When I was meeting with the team I would be working with during my first week there, I remember hearing the building shake as if from a significant explosion and everyone just ignored it and kept talking. Apparently they saw the odd look on my face and said, "Oh, sonic boom," then continued talking about the project. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 23:46 | answer | added | Fabio says Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 20:58 | vote | accept | Volker Siegel | ||
| Nov 24, 2019 at 19:27 | comment | added | Blckknght | In a large part of the video linked in the question, you can see that the fighter has it's flaps deployed (on the leading edge of its wings). That suggests to me (though I'm not a very sophisticated observer of aviation stuff, I could be wrong) that it's at the slower-edge of its performance envelope, and at more risk of stalling than going supersonic. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 19:07 | comment | added | Fattie | This question is being "over-answered" in very confusing ways. The only thing OP wants to be told is "There is never any supersonic flight at airshows." | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 19:05 | comment | added | Fattie | OP, no supersonic flight is allowed at an airshow - it's that simple. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 12:45 | comment | added | Ryan Mortensen | I heard sonic booms on a regular basis in middle Tennessee from '05-'08. They had to flight test the F-22 Raptors over Arnold AFB and there would be 2 sonic booms. One was the F-22, the second was the chase plane. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 8:08 | history | edited | user14897 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2019 at 0:14 | comment | added | RonJohn | "I would expect there would be a demonstration of supersonic flight". Why? (I, on the other hand, would hope that there would be a demonstration of supersonic flight.) | |
| Nov 23, 2019 at 0:10 | comment | added | davidbak | I heard sonic bombs as a kid, in the San Fernando Valley part of Los Angeles. Wonder where they were flying out of? We also frequently heard rocket engine testing from the Rocketdyne and Rockwell facilities in the Chatsworth hills. | |
| Nov 23, 2019 at 0:05 | comment | added | Michael Hall | I think it was the late 60s because I remember hearing some as a kid. I thought it was cool... | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1197983237877981192 | ||
| Nov 22, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Sonic booms over populated areas were essentially forbidden in the US sometime around 1960. Prior to that I heard several. Have not heard one since. | |
| S Nov 22, 2019 at 19:31 | history | suggested | IconDaemon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 15:04 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 24 | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 9:39 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 22, 2019 at 4:15 | answer | added | John K | timeline score: 55 | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 1:55 | answer | added | Ron Beyer | timeline score: 42 | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 1:36 | history | asked | Volker Siegel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |