is the sound of the sonic boom heard iside the airplane?

Answer 1

Yeah if you open the window while you do it, lean out a little bit and you'll faintly hear it.....

Answer 2

The answer of NO is correct. But the why's the other guys have given you is wrong.

The plane is moving through the air making noise by moving air. BTW all hearing is based on the compression of air hitting the ear drums.

As the plane gets closer to the sound barrier the plane rattles and shakes because of the energy building up that needs to be released.

After the plane crosses the sound barrier the enegy is released in a sonic boom, but the pilot cannot hear any of the sounds created outside the airplane at that point because he is moving faster than the compressed air waves therefore they could never reach his ear. That's why pilots say it's strangely quiet after they cross the sound barrier.

Answer 3

Here's the real reason you do not hear the sonic boom in the cockpit. Speed of sound is measured in whatever medium you are in. In the air it is around 763 mph at sea level on the so-called standard day (in 45 years as a pilot I have seen precious few of THOSE). The pilot, however, is not sitting in the air the plane is moving through. He is inside a metal tube, and sound travels much faster through metal. All the pilot hears is the sound of the engines. Since the early century-series fighter aircraft, if it weren't for the instruments the pilot wouldn't even know he's passed mach 1.

Answer 4

99% of commercial jet liners don't break the sound barrier. The one that did was the Concord, but you still wouldn't hear the Sonic Boom, because you are flying MACH2 therefore you are making the Sonic Boom rather then hearing it.

Answer 5

Nope! Picture yourself in an intertube floating in the middle of a perfectly calm lake. A boat comes by and creates waves, the waves travel away from the boat in the shape of a "V". When the waves from the boat reach you, the innertube and your body will bob up and down do to the waves. BUT, the boat that created the waves does not bob up and down since it is the creator of the waves.

Answer 6

No because the aircraft is travelling faster than the speed of sound away from where the "boom" occurs.

Answer 7

Negative! :]


Otherwise, your ear drums would pop due to the loudness and the duration of it.

Answer 8

Nope !