• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

It's the sound of freedom...

Renegade One

Renegade One

Well-Known Member
None
Flugelman said:
Must have been a slow news day... :rolleyes:
Click to expand...
Re: Thread Title: So long as the stars on the aircraft are white...yes it is.
Re: Slow News Day: Yes, it was. I was in a store in Pacific Beach and we all thought someone had driven into the building...or fallen on the roof. Darned atmospherics...:)
 
Schnugg

Schnugg

It's gettin' a bit dramatic 'round here...
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
"it was the chaff."


Ha haha ha ha....
 
Catmando

Catmando

Keep your knots up.
pilot
Super Moderator
Contributor
It's often amazing how little people know about these things, especially those you would normally expect to know.

Regarding that boom, I recieved this email question from a Geiophysics Poject Scientist who holds a Phd. From Stanford, and is with the Inst. Of Geophysics and Planetry Physics.

IOW, he is pretty smart, educated, and he researches sound, including this event.

"... I am very interested in your experience in creating sonic booms. I have recently come to wonder if pilots gauge if they are close to breaking the sound barrier based on their ground speed, or based on their speed with respect to the wind around the aircraft. Can you shed light on this? How to pilots determine if they are close to breaking the sound barrier?" ​
​
[PS: He also asked me what percentage get jets.]
 
Flugelman

Flugelman

Well-Known Member
Contributor
Catmando said:
It's often amazing how little people know about these things, especially those you would normally expect to know.

Regarding that boom, I recieved this email question from a Geiophysics Poject Scientist who holds a Phd. From Stanford, and is with the Inst. Of Geophysics and Planetry Physics.

IOW, he is pretty smart, educated, and he researches sound, including this event.

"... I am very interested in your experience in creating sonic booms. I have recently come to wonder if pilots gauge if they are close to breaking the sound barrier based on their ground speed, or based on their speed with respect to the wind around the aircraft. Can you shed light on this? How to pilots determine if they are close to breaking the sound barrier?" ​
​
[PS: He also asked me what percentage get jets.]
Click to expand...

Doncha have one of these?
 
Brett327

Brett327

Well-Known Member
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
I'm guessing they don't do a lot of fluid dynamics in the earth sciences track. :D
 
CAMike

CAMike

Well-Known Member
None
Contributor
Yeah. I got foil and certain chicks digs me, but that usually incurs an increased cost in the x2 to x3 per hour range. ;)~

In the case below one would start at $600 t0 $800 an hour depending on your attitude and ego. 'Mo Ego = 'Mo money. It's a dangerous formula for some here.

http://classifieds.myredbook.com/tamara26/photos/373402 <--probably not NSFW
 
Renegade One

Renegade One

Well-Known Member
None
Catmando said:
...I have recently come to wonder if pilots gauge if they are close to breaking the sound barrier based on their ground speed, or based on their speed with respect to the wind around the aircraft. Can you shed light on this? How to pilots determine if they are close to breaking the sound barrier?"
Click to expand...
No doubt you told him that as we gradually progress up to and then through "the speed of heat", we can then sense the rapid adiabatic cooling which indicates the approach to "trans-sonic". A few more milliradians of throttle will then punch you through "the speed of cool"...e.g., supersonic. It's way cool to go supersonic for a family day cruise. Even the folks on a hot flight deck can feel it.
 
M

MasterBates

Well-Known Member
In a hummer, you can approach the speed of smell. It's when the combined rotational velocity of the props and the forward speed of the plane approach stuporsonic.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top