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The moment when a navy fighter jet broke the sound barrier (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Someone explained this to me but I may butcher it. The vapor clouds you see are actually the airflow over certain parts of the jet going transonic, the jet itself is subsonic so while it'd be extremely loud, it won't generate a sonic boom.