It's interesting how it's certain parts of the aircraft, not the whole.

Does that mean that just those parts are breaking the sound barrier?

http://www.voodoo.cz/tomcat/new/f14303.jpg

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/images/sonicboomplane_navy_med.jpg

http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~steiner/sonic_boom_lancer1.jpg

Someone should photoshop my FD in there.

thats fucking awesome. looks like a giant jet fart.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b90/wonner/g28p04haha.jpg

ROFL!i remember that huge wing, holy shit.

fuck thats cool, is it only for a flash or does it radiate like water

Don't be fooled, you're seeing the water vapor in the air being temporarily condensed into liquid droplets due to the intense pressure drop in the shock waves which occur when breaking the sound barrier. The whole plane is ripping through the air faster than the air can compress, hence the straight waves like those you see behind a boat in water. Waves always come off straight and diagonally off the body in motion if it is travelling faster than the medium's wave speed.

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I have broken the sound barrier on a huffy before.. pssh easy.

if that happens in air. what would happen if something broke the sound barrier under water? a tsunami?

I Love photos like that! if you ever wanted to know where the lift is produced on an airliner, then have a look at this,

Lift is created by creating an area of LOW pressure above the wing, and on humid days, the water vapour is dissipated in Higher pressure air, but the water condenses out in the areas of low Pressure! giving perfect lift and pressure maps in some photos!

http://home.exetel.com.au/pamuva/FLYING!!!/other%20aircraft/liftpattern.jpg

I know its not going supersonic, but the same basic principles apply, I would love to have seen a picture of the Concord going supersonic and a vapour pattern around it!

Those planes arent braking the sound barrier! They are powered by honda and thats when Vtec JUST KICKED IN YO!!!!
BTW What kinda airplane is the one on the 3rd pic? never seen it B4

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b90/wonner/sonicboomplane_navy_medvtec.jpg

^^^HAHA!!! Right click save! :wiggle:

that one was esp.for you, turboSE:)

its one of these!!

http://home.exetel.com.au/pamuva/FLYING!!!/other%20aircraft/893776.jpg

i think its called a B2B, but im not 100% sure.. and by the way what is the top speed of these things? obviously its Supersonic.

Pretty cool.

I Love photos like that! if you ever wanted to know where the lift is produced on an airliner, then have a look at this,

Lift is created by creating an area of LOW pressure above the wing, and on humid days, the water vapour is dissipated in Higher pressure air, but the water condenses out in the areas of low Pressure! giving perfect lift and pressure maps in some photos!

http://home.exetel.com.au/pamuva/FLYING!!!/other%20aircraft/liftpattern.jpg

I know its not going supersonic, but the same basic principles apply, I would love to have seen a picture of the Concord going supersonic and a vapour pattern around it!

Wow, great pic! Interesting how the vortices from the wing are smaller than those from the stabilizer, probably due to the winglets. The flaps sure do churn the air where they end.

someone needs to photoshop that on my double decker king of wings.......

Close, its a B1-B Lancer.

They are supersonic, Mach 1.2 IIRC. Making them the fastest heavy bombers. They were the planes that were always in the air during the Cold War.

Wow, great pic! Interesting how the vortices from the wing are smaller than those from the stabilizer, probably due to the winglets. The flaps sure do churn the air where they end.

i think its strange there is no obvious vorticies or turbulance between the flap and aileron cutout, just aft of the engines, unless the engine exhaust stops it.. its amazing how much drag the winglets reduce, its non existent on the actual wing tip below the top of the winglet.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a303/Sup1661/other%20images/c5a31a86.jpg

Wow! ^

I read an article in some business aviation mag years ago about the "toe out" angle of winglets so that when the high pressure below the wing spills over the wing tip, it hits a slight angle on the winglet which actually produces thrust, or " anti-drag" as they called it. Amazing stuff, fluids are really cool.

its one of these!!

http://home.exetel.com.au/pamuva/FLYING!!!/other%20aircraft/893776.jpg

i think its called a B2B, but im not 100% sure.. and by the way what is the top speed of these things? obviously its Supersonic.
Sexy ass jet:drooling: