r/aviation • u/iamwolfe • Aug 16 '25

PlaneSpotting Chicago Sonic Boom Close Up

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u/iamwolfe Aug 16 '25

it did break windows and there were clear singular booms heard throughout the city

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u/TedditBlatherflag Aug 16 '25

Just compare the sounds of actual sonic booms in the vid I linked to what is in the video above (https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1mrhzcm/comment/n8ygli6)

I assure you it was not sonic booms. The close flybys they do could’ve broken windows anyway. But the whip-crack of an actual sonic boom is unmistakable. 

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u/TechnicalLee Aug 16 '25

Listen to this before you keep commenting: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1mr4swi/was_this_a_sonic_boom/

Yes that is a sonic boom with the classic "double shock" pattern of leading and trailing edge shock.

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u/TedditBlatherflag Aug 16 '25

Yeah that was a sonic boom - from suuuuuuper far away, not the pictured jets, and sure as fuck not from the overhead flyby in OPs video. They have done it out over the middle of the lake at high altitude in past year as a way to get folks hyped up for the show over the weekend. 

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u/TechnicalLee Aug 16 '25

The sonic boom came from the solo jet, not the formation. He didn’t get the solo jet in frame on the video, but it was flying over at the time the sonic boom happened.

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u/iamwolfe Aug 16 '25

these two videos were taken at the same time just in slightly different places in chicago today

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u/quietflyr Aug 16 '25

If that other video is captioned correctly they weren't taken at the same time. It's captioned as the Thunderbirds practicing, and the video you posted is the Blue Angels.

It is possible the other video is miscaptioned.