I’ll volunteer to be the annoying pedantic spoil-sport who points out that this is a Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud you’re seeing. The aircraft is sub-sonic the entire time, not breaking the sound barrier.
Yep, and to add. If you can hear it coming (albeit quietly), it’s not supersonic!
Ditto. No sonic boom. No supersonic.
Fair enough — I had not heard of Prandtl-Glauert condensation — but if it is breaking the sound barrier, it’s not supersonic prior to that.
I’ll volunteer to be the annoying pedantic spoil-sport who points out that this is a Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud you’re seeing. The aircraft is sub-sonic the entire time, not breaking the sound barrier.
Yep, and to add. If you can hear it coming (albeit quietly), it’s not supersonic!
Ditto. No sonic boom. No supersonic.
Fair enough — I had not heard of Prandtl-Glauert condensation — but if it is breaking the sound barrier, it’s not supersonic prior to that.