F18 Hornet Sonic Boom

Tiger cruise from Pearl Harbor to San Diego. Air demonstration.

[theadeebster]

So many smooth-brained physics experts in this comment section. Y'all have been watching too many movies - your ears will not suddenly rupture and bleed if you experience a sonic boom. They demo supersonic passes on ships all the time. Great video, sorry about the office chair pilots in your comments.

[jayseven]

Hi, former VFA - 154 pilot. I came here for the comments and they don’t disappoint lol. Lots of office chair pilots in here.

[SteveJones-gzvd]

I'm ex merchant marine, worked all over the World. On numerous occasions our vessels would get supersonic buzzed by foreign Aircraft when working in their waters. It is utterly insance and shakes the whole ship. The first time I heard a sonic boom close up I thought the ship had blown up lol.

[birdo]

Wow thats SCARY fast. Its also chilling how you can't hear anything until the sonic boom hits.

[wreksangel]

Remember back before the days of the internet when people thought stupidity was caused by lack of information? Reading a lot of the comments on this video confirms that wasn't it.

[epicpatato]

People saying that the plane was a sonic boom, and that the commenters were wrong. But i'm over here trying to find the comments that said it wasn't a boomy

[Thrarm]

it's so cool how you can see the sonic boom a good second before you hear and and AFTER the plane already passed, that's so cool

[brycekling]

This really gives you a perspective of how big aircraft carriers are 😳

[Gollask]

I once heard the sonic boom of a low flying panavia tornado when I was around 5 years old and the whole thing gave me a phobia for loud noises that lasted for like 10 years... but it also started a lifelong fascination for military aircrafts

[tunatuna]

I saw this on tiger cruise on the kitty hawk 2001ish. I'll never forget the complete silence as it approached. I think some don't understand that at close distances, the sonic boom and the actual sound of the jet are very close together and mesh together. At longer distances you'll hear the two cracks distinctly.

[ridefreeordie]

On this particular day, several air demonstratons were held. This manuver was speficically a super sonic fly by. It's indisputable. I shot the video myself.

[payback]

I just love to see things where they're either so far away sound reaches you a lot later than light or things moving faster than sound so you see them pass before you hear the sound. So satisfying.

[IqaluitDentalClinic]

Amazing to witness this in person. If you never have, make plans to. You will never forget it!

[jonmartin]

Back in the early 80’s my daddy and I used to go fishing in Susansville California and the guard unit up that way was flying F-4’s then and you could sit back in the boat and watch them practice ACM’s and follow their contrails. Several times a day they would pop the sound barrier and it was really cool to sit and watch while waiting for a lake Trout to bite.

[decfitch]

My brain steuggles to fathom going so fast youre silent until youve left, like i get the physics but it just blows my mind, id love to see it in person one day

[Erowens]

Anyone claiming this isn't a sonic boom, i recommend reading the Wikipedia article on sonic booms. The pictures in that article demonstrate clearly why this was a sonic boom. Ie, the sound wave suddenly hit the camera after the plane had already passed because the sound could not keep up with the aircraft and thus formed a sound cone behind it. If you do the math (Pretty basic, back of a napkin stuff), assuming fairly typical weather for the region, you can calculate from the videos sound delay that the aircraft must having been traveling around mach 1.1.

[Iquitalongtimeago]

Finally one that’s real where everyone is recording

[RUSHRUSH]

I heard a sonic boom when I was at my caravan in Heacham, it's what us older people do...last summer, no windows were broken but the mallards that frequent the site appeared to be slightly shocked for a few minutes. Heacham is on the east coast of England but actually faces west across an area of water called The Wash, and there are quite a few military practice flights over that particular area.

[kellywilson]

Our F-18's did this a few times during our med-cruise 87/88 on board the USS Coral sea, The air demo's were a great moral booster for the whole crew, Some would drop live MK-82"s about a mile from the ship as well was cool to witness these things in person !

[magmaaaaaaaa]

Finally, a real video! Every time I see a “sonic boom” video they are always mistaking the vapour cone coming from the jet for some sort of shockwave.