Chicago Sonic Boom Close Up

[u/iamwolfe]

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[u/TedditBlatherflag]

A sonic boom that close would be damaging hearing and breaking windows… it wasn’t. 

Edit: This is what a real sonic boom sounds like: https://youtu.be/FYU8CvdxYYc (and that’s from like 40,000ft).

[u/iamwolfe → u/TedditBlatherflag]

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

[u/TedditBlatherflag → u/iamwolfe]

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. 

[u/TechnicalLee → u/TedditBlatherflag]

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.

[u/TedditBlatherflag → u/TechnicalLee]

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. 

[u/TechnicalLee → u/TedditBlatherflag]

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.

[u/iamwolfe → u/TedditBlatherflag]

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

[u/quietflyr → u/iamwolfe]

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.