sonic booms

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• sonic bang — sonic boom UK / US or sonic bang UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sonic boom : singular sonic boom plural sonic booms physics British the loud sound that a plane makes as it starts to go faster than the speed of sound …   English dictionary

• sonic boom — UK / US or sonic bang UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sonic boom : singular sonic boom plural sonic booms physics British the loud sound that a plane makes as it starts to go faster than the speed of sound …   English dictionary

• Sonic boom — The term sonic boom is commonly used to refer to the shocks caused by the supersonic flight of an aircraft. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion. Thunder is a type of natural sonic boom, created… …   Wikipedia

• sonic boom — a loud noise caused by the shock wave generated by an aircraft moving at supersonic speed. [1950 55] * * * ▪ physics       shock wave that is produced by an aircraft or other object flying at a speed equal to or exceeding the speed of sound and… …   Universalium

• sonic boom — noun an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship • Hypernyms: ↑shock wave, ↑blast wave * * * noun, pl ⋯ booms [count] : a very loud… …   Useful english dictionary

• Oklahoma City sonic boom tests — The Oklahoma City sonic boom tests, also known as Operation Bongo II, refer to a controversial experiment in which 1,253 sonic booms were carried out over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma over a period of six months in 1964. The experiment, which ran from …   Wikipedia

• Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration — The NASA Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration, also known as the Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment, was a two year program that used a Northrop F 5E with a modified fuselage to demonstrate that the aircraft s shockwave, and accompanying sonic boom, can be… …   Wikipedia

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