• F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator (SSBD)
  • sonicbooms.org pictures coming soon
  • Link to NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
  • Link to Goleta Air & Space [Virtual] Museum photographs of F-5SSBD

• In-flight Schlieren Photographs - supersonic flight shocks seen by density (from pressure) changes visualized by slight sun ray bending over long distances into a telescope
  • T-38 in-flight Schlieren photograph of shocks at Mach 1.1
  • F-18 in-flight Schlieren photograph of shocks at Mach 1.4

• Flow visualization by condensation (subsonic flight with local regions of supersonic flow)

F-18 flying transonically at sea level

.MPEG (1.28MB) of a similar event Original source of video (F-14 Tomcat). .MPEG (941KB) local supersonic flow seen by ocean surface disturbance (and audio)

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