A Supersonic Aircraft with a Silencer 

I remember my first sonic boom. I just so happened to be recording the noise for a pair of CF-18s training over the residential areas of Valcartier in 1999. Probably one of the best days of my life.

@@Kozak806 I lived in Los Angeles during the time of military supersonic flights in the inland desert. I live in Orlando now and some planes get my attention to look up and say Oh Wow. The last one was white, all white no markings. Flights are few now. I mostly see mail services like Fed Ex. I think my father went to extra lengths to get me to pay attention to flight. He worked at a major defense aircraft supplier and had a security clearance which I didn’t know about until he died. He did want me to do well in my future of science and engineering. He just couldn’t provide the specific information. Instead, we would watch the sky every day and visit Air & Space museums occasionally.

The catch with the Sonic Boom tests of the 50's and 60's is that they were rattling dishes on walls and in some cases breaking a window pane here and there, so they're mildly louder than a gunshot from two blocks away. More like a gunshot from the car next to you, which is a good deal more frightening and damaging to your ears.

Nah, that was a window being smashed by the looters. You can tell by the giggling that follows.

@rottencactus28 When they're several blocks away in a city, or several miles in the country, you're correct. When they're ten feet away, most people react a bit more strongly. :) Sonic booms are typically of the "ten feet away" gunshot variety.

Enemy territory

@B B And they weren't even true sonic booms, either. They're legally prohibited from doing that over land unless they're actively intercepting an inbound nuclear bomber. I'm not even sure if they broke the sound barrier on 9/11, even after they knew what was going on. What the airshow flights do is get up to 0.98 mach, or thereabouts, and create a very loud boom which you generally can't hear more than a couple hundred feet in front of the plane, but it's still not a fully compressed sonic shockwave, since at airshow altitudes, that would blow out the windows in all the spectators cars, and the eardrums of all the spectators.

Browsing the Boneyard with Google Maps is really fascinating. There is a whole section that looks like rows and rows of Ceylon fighters from Battlestar Galactica. Took me a while to figure out what I was really looking at. I was somewhat disappointed that they weren't actually Ceylon fighters. :)

Near Tucson? Dude, it is the south east part of Tucson!

@@Baronstone I know, I go to UofA and the AF planes fly over day and night. Also where they train for heritage flights I believe so we get some old warbirds occasionally too.

you can drive through some of it on kolb

@@maxchen9482 do you goto the part of it on kolb?

This is said with a bottle of absinthe labeled “jet fuel” in one hand and a wrench in the other raised in the air.

Gork and Mork would be proud

That's where we get most of our ideas nowadays. Socialism, communism, racism.

Everyone wishes they had access to a scrap yard storing a good TRILLION $ worth of aircraft.

@@mhamma6560 if I had that access I’d attempt to make a space worthy aircraft the size of a Hercules aircraft

They look cool as hell though.

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Try sleeping below the flight deck where they land

I live right next to an airport lol some planes are so god damn loud it sounds like an air raid is happening

They fly in Heli Mode? As dar as i know the Plane Mode is super quiet

engineer*

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Adrian Brody?

That nose is what allows the plane to fly supersonic without the boom. They didn't even mention the nose.

It’s the Jimmy Durante of aircraft. Ha cha cha! 🤥

that's why Dark is the best

My search term was iMac. I came here.

@@Part_121_Wannabe Dark is great, except for the numerous mistakes he makes in each and every episode. Cranks 'em out fast like a Chinese factory, where the QA people are frequently on break... or something?

someone is more like many people, as nasa is the one giving lockheed the challenge (pushing aviation forward)

Wife: closes the car door Neighbourhood: *windows shattering, car alarms sound, dogs barking, women screaming, chaos and confusion everywhere*

Now that is fricken funny.

a supersonic aircraft with a hairy ballbag

One hell of a way to grab our attention

Wait until you see a video of the silenced Main Battle Tank😁

Brrrrrrt

Youre right but the complete ones uploaded in the videos description are much better.

South Devon lad here, and I still remember the sound of Concorde's sonic boom at about five minutes past nine at night.

@Derek Flint no, a very dull double bang. If a car was driving by then I wouldn't hear it. Concorde was no longer supersonic by the time she flew over. The shockwave was the remnants from the high-speed dash.

I remember the sonic boom fondly (I lived in Yelland North Devon at the time), the concord was only aloud to fly at supersonic speeds over the sea. The ban in America was actually because of Boeing as they were developing a supersonic passenger plane at the same time as Concord, when Concord was finish first they got all their senators on their payroll to vote to ban them so that Concord wouldn't be too established when Boeing finished their plane and be unable to sell them, the idea was once their plane was finish the senators on their pay roll would then vote to reverse the ban. Boeing never finished their plane due to design problems and were on the verge of bankruptcy when the owner of Panam at a party challenged the owner of Boing to build a large passenger jetliner and the Boing 747 was born saving Boing and revolutionising air travel. Boeing blocking Concord in America is often attributed as the main reason that Concord never became viable and eventually stopped flying.

@@kaneworsnop1007 I always suspected as much. It's my biggest irritation about the Americans, they wanna be biggest and best at everything.

I worked in on the coast in west Cork, Southern Ireland in the mid 80s. 11:10am on the nose, every day, double bang...

If you want to manipulate a situation for financial gain, business influence, or political power just get the public to freak out over something unfamiliar and you have the perfect cover. I'm inclined to believe the commenter who said the overland ban was essentially to give Boeing some breathing room to get their SST design into production. That didn't happen, though, so the ban was never reversed.

I hear you Bro, my mom seemed hell bent to pull that door through to the other side.....😁👍 A small but good memory. Thanks for reminding me.

The government will not allow supersonic passenger travel due to seeing to far into the flat horizon.

@@timmoles9259 sure 😂😂

LMAO 😆

It's her car, so...

The thumb rule is when you buy f-117, always buy two of them, for da spare parts

The F-117 itself was a “Franken Plane”

Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible !

Bright footage

Same near Heathrow, you certainly knew when it was flying.

A couple of times a day?

@@edmonddowling3686 what?

I grew up within earshot of the engine testing shed. Sometimes they'd be left running for what felt like hours.

Well it had Rolls Royce Olympus engines which were originally from an Avro Vulcan. The only difference was that the Concorde's Olympus engines used afterburners

Heck, if you have a video you might get a voiceover deal!

You must live in a suburb of Phoenix.

@@deezynar That's unlikely - Davis Monthan AFB, home of the Boneyard, is in Tucson, more than 100 miles south of Phoenix. :) www.google.com/maps/@32.1602322,-110.8474772,4111m/data=!3m1!1e3

The Davis Monthan AFB boneyard is in Tucson, AZ. The video creator may have seen the other boneyard with bigger jets and planes between Tucson and PHX, which I believe is a National Guard base

Within hours? Doubtful.

@@barrygrant2907 probably not within hours, probably .. in hours... as in they're always almost done? haha

Agreed, it's more than 100 miles from Phoenix!

Dont down grade it like that I mean give it a local town that actually makes you feel enthusiastic about going there say it's in marana or Red Rock even but come on Tucson sucks

@@johnsprinkles7369 arizona in general, sucks. i once had a connecting flight thru phoenix and decided i never wanted to see that state again. dont know why anyone would want to live in a hot dry sandbox or jungle humidity like florida. ill take the cold and rainy states anyday.

@@_AndromedaGalaxy_ but it's a dry heat.

As fast as it’s growing, Tucson will soon be a suburb.

Me too. Houston in the 60s had them cuz of NASA.

@@AB-kg6rk Me too, you couldn't see them because of the altitude but they'd interrupt the old man's nap time lol

You were in Tucson.

I drive past it daily on my way to work. You were indeed in Tucson.

My dad work at AMARC ( boneyard)

24 years civil service

You are correct it is Tucson.

somebody is always going to complain about something especially if somebody has a bigger "stick" on the playground grow up man.

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 whoosh

@@FuelAirSparkTime LMAO

Funny. If they call it a flash suppressor they should be fine.

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i think u will still hear the engine noise

@@sulaiman9766 DOH!

Tanta ciencia que hay ahora y no an inventado como apagar un volcán con Dios nadie puede el es el todo poderoso

You made the right choice

that one isn't bad either. I mean, Skunkworks should make a design school. Like they could make anything, even it's never going to fly you want to buy one.

unfortunately, the swordfish already exists, and its a FUCKING BIPLANE USED IN WW2 BY THE BRITS TO DROP TORPEDOS DNNDHD H SNALSHDHDNBSHSJJEKNA SUCH A SUITING NAME FOR A BIPLANE I agree with this comment thought, it should be called the sword fish

@@AEWYU marlin? Sailfish?

@@thenthson that would work

Obviously they should call it the sky narwal.

They’re building the “Questjet”. Now we need to get Johnny, Hadji, Race, & Dr. Quest…. and Bandit.

Not as impressive as the 10-second Google ad I had to watch before the video. Fuk Google

Could you imagine living in the future and complaining about a 10-second ad. When I was a kid I wished commercials were only 10 seconds long

@@aprayingatheist2378 yes. Perhaps you have another question?

@@lestatangel sure if you could travel back to one place in history, when would it be and why? I would like to go to North America 16,000 years ago to see what it was like. Although Egypt 4,000 years ago would be pretty sick too

@@aprayingatheist2378 Ancient Egypt, so I can make babies with Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh. A lot of babies. As in many. 🖤

My thoughts too. Those old doors are heavy and worn.

My 93 Chevy door doesn't go through the sound barrier since my divorce, it's still as quiet as when I got it in 93.

Your supposed to lube those you know. Imma guess your bro changed his own oil because this is something carried out everytime you get your oil changed at a station. Most people neglect these areas

@@GonzoDonzo yeah he kept them lubed. But it was just a poor design, they should have used larger hinges or three of them. Also had door handles fail as a result of the amount of force made to open them everytime.

Possibly the most impressive technology since stealth any you think, "VIDEO GAME!"

@@scootergeorge9576 you do know that real pilots use simulators for training, right?

@@scootergeorge9576 Yes.

@@DaBoba Chinese pilots use DCS!

Yeah,....whatta fake exp!!

@Vanghost Art Do little ice cubes make drinks better by cooling them faster than bigger cubes of the same total mass, due to increased surface area, or worse by diluting the drink quicker for the same reason? Does the answer depend on the drink, and if so why? Yes, I am a party animal!

I'm thinking it has more to do with the cruising altitude than the physical build aspects, as it states in the clip.

A bit late with the reply but it's shockwave generation that's unavoidable, not sonic boom. That's not a contradiction, look at the Busemann Biplane concept.

So I generally don't weigh in here - but you're right about it being about the nose. Think about air being a substance like a giant rubber band, not just well...air. As you travel through it, there is resistance on the body traveling through it. You get this a little like if you're going down the highway with your windows down...even on a windless day standing still, as you move through space, there is air resistance and indeed, friction. Your car (or any other jet that can go supersonic or literally "over sound" does the same but because the nose is snubbed, or not out in front of the main body of the craft stretching through it (and if your car can go that fast - I want the secret!), after the point at which sound travels - that's the rubber band, from the analogy above snapping back into place from being stretched to its limit (so in other words, it's not the sound being snapped, it's the air pressure/friction around the aircraft it's traveling through) Because of the nose cutting through the air to the back of the aircraft where the "rubber" snaps back into place, a louder "boom" is heard. Add to this that the "rubber" in the air at high altitude is thinner than on the surface of the earth, and so the "snap back" is far less than say, at sea level. This particular aircraft, because it's nose is "needle" the stretching of the "rubber" (sorry for the analogy!) is stretched more precisely, and more gradually, so that when it does snap back - it snaps back more gently and less suddenly. Sorry for the layman's terms for aeronautical physics...I don't know from where or which profession you come from - so I thought I'd try to be as simple as possible.

@@JoelMBarr-hh7vs Thanks, it’s fascinating stuff.

I thought we have some thing like that?

Nobody likes it when their home town is insulted like that. Besides, it's pretty lazy of the video researchers to have gotten that messed up. It is one of the easiest things to look up.

@@deezynar Yeah, but also just like whatever... ya know?

Tucson is proud to host the Air Force base and fights like hell when someone "disses" it. Also, most native Tucsonans do not like Phoenix because Phoenix tends to take on "superior airs" when comparing themselves and Tucson. Live there a few years and you will not want to leave. The summers and winters are cooler, less crowded, less traffic and just it's just "different". Lastly, it's just a matter of fact that getting such a simple thing like that wrong is a big deal. What else that we cannot check is being reported wrong?

@@deezynar insulted wtf lmao who fucking cares.. it's in Arizona that's all that the rest of the world needed to know.

@@deezynar First time on Dark Docs? Half the details he spits out are wrong.

I dont think it will get the nickname lawn dart II

was it? what parts?

@@mattwaters9008 It used F-16 stuff mostly, including the landing gear. So, it is kind of funny this video says landing gear from an F-16 and stick from an F-117. Of course, Dark Docs isn't at all known for accuracy anyway, so it if all turns out to be parts pulled from a Cessna 210, a Chevy S-10, and a DC-10 I would be all that surprised Dark got it wrong.

Congratulations your the 1000th person to say that 👍

@@johnsegertsons2143 No just me : )

@@johnsegertsons2143 You take the tour? It's pretty cool...Saw a bunch a C-5s that flew in.

And they were taking apart NASA lazer jet..

And neither one produced a sonic boom. Makes you think!

Bin division, Bind means to secure something by tying it down or together

@@Baronstone As in plastic parts bin

yeah its already reached tucson

Yes, as the video stated. The sneaky part is that there is really only one way to make supersonic flight happen without a sonic boom and a US aircraft manufacturer just cornered the market on it. Airbus is going to be super pissed off when they realize what happened because they wont be able to build them

Now that is some excellent information

How much of this "information" is real and verifiable and how much did you just make up? Do you have any sources? Cause it sounds completely made up.

LOL

A LOT of them. Especially F-4s and F-16s, because a lot were built. Even with converting some to target drones and scrapping others for the metal, there are plenty left over.

Not the suburbs of Tucson, it is in Tucson proper.

New-ish body...junk yard parts....