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If a plane goes supersonic, does the pilot hear the bang when the sound barrier is broken?

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If a plane goes supersonic, does the pilot hear the bang when the sound barrier is broken?

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  1. no.


  2. No

  3. No. When a plane hits the speed of sound, it compresses the air in front of it. The bang is created by that pressure wave in the air moving over the listener. Basically, you're hearing the violent change in air pressure. Because the plane is travelling along with the wave, the pressure wave doesn't travel over the pilot so there's nothing for him to hear.

  4. No you sure don't.  As a matter of fact, it's pretty much like going through very light chop.  Hardly noticeable unless you happen to be looking at the machmeter.

    Kind of anticlimatic.

  5. Hmmmm. There is no sound barrier. If there were, I doubt it'b break. But no, when an aircraft exceeds mach one, he hears no change.

  6. No. Simply put, the boom is generated by pressure waves colliding  around the aircraft. The aircraft is actually travelling faster than the sound made by this collision (obviously).

  7. No. He's traveling ahead of the sonic boom, therefore, he won't hear it.

  8. no, but he feels it in the controls.
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