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If fling in an airplane ("I've never been") and that plane makes a sonic boom or whatever those loud noises are that planes make. Do the pepeole inside that plane hear the nosie like we do here on the ground? Hmmm

2007-12-02 14:10:31 · 4 answers · asked by bigtim151 2 in Cars & Transportation Aircraft

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Sonic booms happen when an airplane "outruns" its own sound waves... (breaking the speed of sound) so the answer is no, you would not hear the sonic boom... since you are "beating" any sound you make...

2007-12-02 14:21:12 · answer #1 · answered by ALOPILOT 5 · 5 3

In practrice no.

But actually, if you could hear what was going on outside the aircraft body there are times when you'd hear sonic shockwaves, if you watch the videos of ThrustSSC supersonic runs you hear a whining sound as the car accelerates through the trans-sonic region and the local supersonic shockwaves from the engine inlets bounce off the canopy between them. But supersonic passanger aircraft are built (since we had Concorde and Tu144 in the past and there's a supersonic business jet in the funding stage now which has orders I think I can say 'are') so that the shockwaves from things like the nose and leading edge features don't impinge on the cabin. There isn't anything inwards and behind things that generate the sonic boom.

Let's put it another way, a sonic boom is a cone surface and the aircraft is behind the tip of the cone and never catches it.

Most supersonic aircraft are actually quieter in the cockpit bcause sound from the airframe and engines that was transmitted through the air can't catch up to the cockpit any more.

2007-12-02 15:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 6 · 2 2

No you will not hear the sonic boom.

2007-12-02 14:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by pkdann 3 · 2 3

Passenger airplanes don't go fast enough to make "sonic booms." You will be fine, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

Your English is not bad, but you need to relax, take it slowly, and work on your spelling.

2007-12-02 14:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by aviophage 7 · 2 7

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