Breaking The Sound Barrier Footage

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I think this link to footage of the sound barrier being broken is worth sharing.
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Awesome power!!!

I would love to see something like that in person!!

Thanks
 
That's pretty cool. Even at the speed attained at our annual riverfront airshow, you get the pressure-induced condensation trails from wingtips and such. (They don't let em' go supersonic over the city...)

The flightsim I play models this too, pretty neat to see those little contrails form off the control surfaces as the aircraft manuever.
 
The video is legit, but it's not what's described in the text that goes along with it. That's an F-14 in the video.

This is Ensign Gay's photo:

 
That's also an F-14 in the "photo" on the left.

We've seen some excellent Photoshopped images show up as photos and artists like Dru Blair do some exceptional painting. The following work by Blair showing the B-1B on a LL run over a "northern lake" is entitled Power. The full sized version shows such clarity and attention to detail you would swear it is real.

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The video is fascinating, RWS. :)
 
Another flight of fancy for B-2 dreamers.....

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Found this one was titled B-2 Breaking the Sound Barrier. I'm sure theres one of a Vari-EZ, Beechcraft Bonanza, or some Ultra-light makin' the jump to hyper-sound out there as well. :D

Now the A-7 Corsair classed as a transonic aircraft and has seen Mach in steep dives. (and straight and level but the YA-7F is another Corsair....Aaarrrrrrrr!)
 
wolfmann601 said:
I would love to see something like that in person!!
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Stop by some time. . .while I'm not able to to provide you with a visual. . . .we can share the audible and the physical effects of jets breaking the sound barrier.


Unfortunately, it only cool the first time. :D
 
tortoise said:
The video is legit, but it's not what's described in the text that goes along with it. That's an F-14 in the video.
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I noticed that also. I think the text was provided to be more of an explanation of what the effects of breaking the barrier are.
 
tortoise said:
For Java,

an official US Navy photograph from the Constellation 25 April 1972.



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Aye! Sweet! A mighty fine Corsair ye got ready to roll the steam powered plank there, matey! Getting all misty eyed here,,,'scuse me whilst I wrings out me eye-patch. Arrrrrrr!



......and here's a Corvair doin' the same. (Well maybe a Falcon..)

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Never could get them buckets a bolts ta do more than 200 knots! :D
 
Thanks for the A-7 carrier shot, tortise!

I've been partial to the Aardvark for years. The fuel dump mast is between the engines and pilots found they could create quite a stir among the landlocked UFO believin' sheeples by dumping fuel and igniting it using reheat (afterburner). It was especially cool to watch at night. The Olympic flame was spirited away by an RAF F-111C at the close of the Brisbane ceremonies. Here's what they look like in the light of day.

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....and at night

2003 Riverfire Dump and Burn

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NBC: Olympic Dump and Burn
 
IN that video,the jet seems to break the sound barrier twice in a very short distance.I work offshore and hear sonic booms all the time,Hampton Roads is home to a pile of fighter jets,Air Force and Navy,and that is what they usually sound like;BOOM-BOOM,real close together.

Anybody know why?Does the first one slow them down just a hair so they have to break the sound barrier again an instant later?
 
While watching the video in the link provided, it seems the time lapse counter does not slow down when the video goes to slow motion. Am I missing something here?
 
Michael Dye said:
While watching the video in the link provided, it seems the time lapse counter does not slow down when the video goes to slow motion. Am I missing something here?
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If you look, the "line1" at the top corner is the "channel" that many VCR's use instead of channel 3 or 4 for playback. I imagine it was on videotape originally and slowed down then. In order to get it to play digitally, the tv was recorded with a digital video camera and converted to an MPEG to be used on the website. The counter is just the VCR tape counter.
 
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