Sonic booms are top of the mind for some at the FAA as it evaluates whether to approve SpaceX’s request to carry out up to 25 Starship flights per year from South Texas. (Currently, the company ...

Sonic booms from rockets are also lower frequency, with peaks of less than 1 Hz—below the range of human hearing. The result is less of a "boom" and more of a "bang," according to Gee, that can ...

He wrote a lot about sonic booms, and in August of 1957 he had a chance to go supersonic himself. A test pilot from North American Aviation took him up in an F-100, breaking the sound barrier ...

A sonic boom is caused by high energy shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. While the speed of sound varies depending on the altitude, it is ...

Sonic booms are thunderous-like noises that are heard on the ground when airplanes overhead fly faster than the speed of sound. That speed is typically about 760 mph near sea level, ...

Between April 2013 and February 2021, 13 sonic booms, external were recorded by the UK's Military of Defence (MoD). Seven of those occurred in the East of England. Under UK aviation law, all ...

A sonic boom occurs when an aircraft travels equal to or faster than the speed of sound (approximately 343 metres per second, or 1 kilometre in 2.91 seconds).