Re: air speed measurement above mach 1

Randy Poe wrote:
> So it is, but the sonic boom is happening in the atmosphere
> ahead of the plane, not on the metal. Drag something
> quickly through water and you will see a [cross-section
> of a] cone spreading out from the front edge of what
> you are dragging. That is a sonic boom.
>
> > Are you saying that the boom isn't conducted into
> > the plane?
>
> That is correct, since from the plane's point of view
> there is nothing going "boom". It is something seen
> by stationary observers.

Let me see, the pilot doesn't hear the boom because the plane tip is
driving the air that booms with respect to the undriven air? So then
if the plane were fast enough, could it turn around and fly parallel to
the boom to hear it? Would that wreck the plane?

-Aut

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