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FRANCHIR VITESSE SONIQUE [1 record]

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Record 1 1997-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flights (Air Transport)
  • Acoustics (Physics)
  • Noise Pollution
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

It is sometimes mistakenly thought that aircraft produce a sonic boom only at the moment that they "break the sound barrier".

CONT

In the case of an airplane breaking the sound barrier ... it results in the sonic bang or boom on the ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vols (Transport aérien)
  • Acoustique (Physique)
  • Pollution par le bruit
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Un avion qui passe le mur du son en piqué provoque un double bang [...]

CONT

Le mur sonique, le mur du son : l'ensemble des obstacles, des difficultés qui s'opposent au dépassement de la vitesse du son par un avion, une fusée. Franchir le mur du son.

Spanish

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