[wck0]

"...an aircraft will generate a sonic boom along the length of its flight path at a rate of one mile per thousand feet."

Can someone explain what is being measured as one mile per thousand feet?

[zacharycohn]

One mile wide per thousand feet in altitude?

[sandworm101]

Doesnt matter. Sonic booms have virtually no real power. All the tales of them breaking windows and starting avalanches are pure myth. (See the anti-concorde media campaign.) Forest fires release atomic bomb-levers of energy. A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.

[danielvf]

Here’s the Brazilian Supreme Court windows breaking from a sonic boom.

https://youtu.be/43Kl7c2yU3g

[WalterBright]

I remember sonic booms in the 1960's in the midwest. They weren't worthy of note.

[windows_tips]

>A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.

May be all that's required [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect