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Big BOOM!

  • June 7, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

A sonic boom is that thunder-like noise you hear when an airplane goes faster than the speed of sound (about 700 mph). The plane produces air-pressure waves, like waves around a boat. When the plane breaks the sound barrier, pressure builds up into a shock wave, and BOOM!

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