How Fast Is a Supersonic Plane?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- 20 years ago, you could fly in a plane going faster than sound. But, uh... how fast is that?
The famous Concorde supersonic plane could get from New York to London in 3 and a half hours. But then… these planes stopped flying, and we never made any more like them. Now, New York to London takes 7 hours.
But why? What happened to supersonic planes? And more importantly… can we bring them BACK? If you ask NASA, the answer is yes. In our longer episode on supersonic flight, we got to go see the brand new experimental X-59 plane they’re building. Here’s what’s really huge if true: If NASA succeeds, it could bring back commercial supersonic flight, and allow you and I to fly faster than sound.
This video is part of Huge If True. If you like optimistic stories about technology and the future, follow for more! #tech #supersonic #airplane #plane #concorde #NASA
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still swift af boi
(Someone will get this)
@@tomzitigerfellow swifty here✌
@@tomzitiger what?
what is swift?
@@Vettel_Ronaldo ?
Nice profile pic, Dark Side of the Moon turned 50 this year
My grandfather once told me he flew in a Concorde. He passed away at 90 recently and it was nice to be reminded of him :)
R.I.P
R.I.P. I feel you’re loss, my uncle (still alive) went on concorde quite a few times.
How he died
Old age at 91
It’s crazy that there are cars that’s faster than the fastest train.
I mean you also gotta include the weight, a train would be alot heavy it will have an affect on its speed
eh, most top car speeds are kinda fishy. Theres a lot of recalled top speeds and theoretical top speeds. the real record is much closer to the train. like 295.
Japan's Linear Motor Car, which is a maglev (which means it's debatable whether it's a train or not), goes at 341 mph top speed.
But the speed record for a train is 574 KPH
By the french train TGV 🚄
In general you don't want to be traveling faster than speed of sound, as speed of sound is just the max speed anything can travel in air. In order to break the sound barrier you basically have to create a vacuum around you and it's really dangerous to stay in vacuum.
And it had a droop snoot. A snoot... that drooped. 😂
Well you know The snoot would… droop
BOOP THE SNOOT !
Like the YAK 38M or B
The Concorde is such an incredible piece of engineering, not even because of what it can do, we could probably make a significantly more impressive plane today but because it was even made in the first place. The golden age of aviation progress!
The F16 can do Mach 2 for a couple of minutes on full afterburner. Concorde did that for hours at a time, super cruising (only used afterburners for takeoff and to push through the transonic phase), with 100 passengers sipping champagne.
But concordes wings would fall off it it tries to do a loop
@@hdwoods3853
Did that happen then..
did someone try to do an air wolf style 360° spin in a concorde ...?
@@hdwoods3853Ah, a key ability that you must have in order to fly Mach 2
@@RyanTheHero3 the point is they are both designed for their own roles and that speed is not a key factor for an f16, and comparing them that way is unfair
@@stuartd9741 no but someone tried to do a loop on the russian rip off of concorde and the wings fell off
i think it was in the 80s when the concorde came to little rock arkansas, but my dad and grandfather got to be in it at the airport and they even went in the cockpit
What? 460km/h for the fastest train?
Where did you get this number?
The French TGV speed record is at 574,8 km/h, which is the fastest on steel rails, and the Japanese Maglev reached 603 km/h!
Probably fastest operating speed
@@Rapradabut then why would she pick the fastest possible for cars, either pick one way to measure or the other
These are all regarding vehicles that are in operation. Not one and done.
That's bullet-train not train
@@ahleenahyup, the comparison seems a bit unfair.
Strange the Concorde stopped completely, instead having a better new one. One rare step behind in technology.
It’s nuts to think that you used to be able to fly London to New York in not much over two hours. Concorde is super cool - if you ever get to see one in person, it’s absolutely stunning.
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For reference, NASA was working on a supersonic (~1.4 Mach) transport design in the mid-90s (HSCT = High Speed Civil Transport), going so far as to contract the Tu-144 to flight test some components. Even then, economics killed it.
Those speeds are hard to imagine
And incorrect
Just watch the TGV breaking the world record in 2007, it's a video on TH-cam, the train is breaking 574,8km/h and you can see the view of the train for comparison
Not if you're Pucci
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fun fact: the soviets actually own the fastest commertial airliner, the TU 144, this plane was in 2 crashes, including one in the 1973 paris airshow. It could reach mach 2.15.
I was trying to calculate how can a person look this good and know about this stuff too.
Part of why they stopped flying the Concord was the sonic boom caused so much trouble.
The speed of sound isn't always the same. It changes a lot actually based on pressure. As air pressure decreased with altitude, the speed of sound also decreases. There is a reason we say mach 1 and not 767 mph. Mach 1 is ever changing.
Civil aviation is the only thing to go backwards in development 🤔
I remember visiting concorde, not to fly though. It is soo small and narrow inside with tiny windows.
Compared to other airliners it was like seeing a greyhound next to newfoundland.
Lucky you. I almost feel envious.
I remember when the SR-71 set the trans Atlantic speed record. It flew faster than a 30-06 high powered rifle bullet across the Atlantic. That's 2200 mph.
Her: Mentioned the Concorde
Also Her: *Summoned the whole Aviation geeks army*
Concorde is as legendary as the 747 or even more.
Ngl, i thought the thrusters on the concorde were on fire so, i thought this video was about Air France 4590💀💀
Bring back the Concorde 😭
I want to fly it before dying..
Me: creating speed of light plane in the future
Great video!
*Shinkanse left the group*
Well, actually, the speed of sound is only relevant assuming there is a constant altitude which makes the true airspeed the measure of MPH or KMPH so the speed of sound or Mach one is a term coined to describe breaking the sound barrier at any true air speed
"how fast is light?"
Proceeds to tell us about NASA's supersonic plane😭
That's a Jesko absolute 😍😍
Imagine..if Mach 1 has this top speed ..then what speed will Mach 10 have ...🤯
Thats like going at the speed of 342.77 meters per second 💨💨
Cameramen never die
Booieg 737 - What the most dangerous of my version?
B737 Max - 💀💀
Depends on the weather
Dude, thanks to that short I can now remember how fast is speed of sound
Just 1234
Why does everyone forget the TU 144
It was bigger and faster and it came out earlier than the Concorde
I love concord 😍
Apparently when the concorde was still flying, the airbases used to see if they could intercept it and only 1 dude ever did and he had to break the sound barrier while climbing to do it 😂
Science videos should only use SI units, it is much easier to understand as a science student. I would appreciate if the velocities in this short were in m/s
"The snoot would droop"
Im pretty sure a country radar sometime in the future is gonna pick this up as a fighter jet
The correct answer is: It depends on the density of the air the sound has to go trough.
I've visited the Concord near me.
That looks like some spacecraft from the future. Does it also reach space ?
Rest in pieces concord 😢 there is no FOD in heaven
2,172 km/h means the concord was covering
36.2 km/minute. Bloody hell.
The concorde featured a droop snoot
WOAHH I SAW THAT ON FLIGHTRADAR24 THAT PLANE
How did they make this plane for commercial use IN THE 70'S? Even with the sonic boom present???
I’m super interested in hearing why they retired the Concord.
How about the SR-71 Blackbird? Top speed was at 2,200mph, that’s more than three times the speed of sound!
How is she so stunning
You can look at her for a whole day
your altitude also effect the speed you need to be supersonic. higher you go, the faster you go.
Wait, would there be no turbulence or more? Can someone please explain this to my smooth brain
There is a combat-jet named Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that can go up to 3540km/h
Blue guy is indeed fast
NASA sonic plane is called boom
The L-0 Maglev in Japan hit 603 kmph in test
The Foxbat was doing Mach 3-5 in 85
You can make more of a change if you use the metric system while speaking and leaving the imperial in writing.
Your train and carp speeds are off by massive amounts. That’s such an easy thing to look up. How’d you miss that?
The Boeing 737 will go 520 mph until the door rips off and then the plane crashes.
Nasa also should build more carbon free cars, ships and industries
I thought that car’s top speed is only theoretical, they’ve never done an actual run
Concorde🇬🇧 hasn't stopped flying.. it's just not taking commercial flights any more💸💷
Please American... The Shanghai Maglev, also known as the Shanghai Transrapid, tops the list with its maximum operating speed of 460km/h and average speed of 251km/h. It has a record high-speed of a staggering 501km/h.
The fastest car ever reached over 1000kph, but it was more of a jet car
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Cameraman was fast🗿🗿🗿
641 knots or a little more at mach 1 or 671 knots
Fastest car going 700mph
Turns out a lot of the push for the return of supersonic flights is by Saudi Aramco, the world's single largest producer of oil... I wonder why that would be...
Concorde so fast
The fastest non production car is 763mph.
I don’t know, but hypersonic is Mach 5, and above
Bugatti laughing in the corner
No
About 600-700 knots
The 230 mph was recalled it only went 295
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You have numbers wrong. The fastest train reaches over 500 KPH. Its called the TGV.
Also NO car has reached 330 MPH except prototypes. The fastest production car reached 304 MPH (Chiron) and the fastest "car" (jet with wheels) reached over 700 MPH(Trust SSC).
TGV record is 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), and Bullet Train (japanese train) record is 603km/h
Thanks! I wanted to correct it too
Car record is 763mph (1228 kph) by the British built Thrust SSC.
@@michaelscott7166Das a rocket bro
@michaelscott7166 that's not a real car nor road legal. The video is clearly talking about the fastest production car.
@@CoochieKissKing- Um,,, top fuel dragsters go 330 mph.. and they get there in 3 seconds from a standing start.
The correct scientific notation for "Kilometer per hour" is km/h not KPH. No one use KPH as it is non-standard.
and she uses KPH where did that M come from bro? did you even watch the video?
My dad has been in the Concorde twice and said that it was still to this day the quietest and smoothest flight he had.
How much did it cost him?
@@babisotonggg He said something around $2000 to $3000 for a one way trip. It was a paid trip because somehow my father was friends with a millionaire.
So did Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October.
Getting to Europe in two hours had to be nuts.
@@RobHealy1 have you been ok concorde?
Also, it's given a Mach number bevause the speed of sound changes with air density as you increase in altitude! Mach 1 is a variable!
Thank you for clarifying I honestly assumed each Mach stood for speed of sound x Mach number
@@PlasmaGameplay986That is what it means. The speed of sound is dependent on temperature, humidity, and altitude.
Was just going to say that , air temp, altitude ,anything that changes air density.
@@PlasmaGameplay986 well it does mean that, but it's just that the speed of sound is dependant on pressure and temperature. At 1 atmosphere of pressure and 70 degrees F (21 degrees C), the speed of sound is 767 mph (343 m/s). At different pressures and temperatures, the speed of sound is different.
Was looking for this comment.
Speed of sound is variable according to air density. Aviation nerds unite.
Actually, Mach one is not a fixed speed relative to the ground, it is, as it's name says it, the speed of sound, relative to the medium. It depends of where you are (in terms of altitude and in what the sound will be propagating (air, water, steel, etc...)), temperature and atmospheric pressure. Mach 1 = 1234 km/h only at 1013,25 hPa and 20°C.
And then there is me after turning the lights off at night
For those that didn't know;
The reason concord was decommisioned was due to it being a commercial air craft and that going supersonic creates a butt tonne more drag once you break the sound barrier and this uses a LOT more fuel. Creating sonic booms (which happen once going passed the speed of sound) makes the flight a whole lot more costly, and thus wasn't a viable commercial product for consumers to regularly use.
It was more so that it couldn’t fly over land (sonic booms would cause damage to property) and it also had a questionable safety record. The cost would go down by fixing the sonic boom issue like you said, but that wasn’t the primary reason the Concorde stopped flying. If that were true, it never would have started flying.
Do modern fighter planes encounter that same problem with drag when it goes supersonic ?
@@christophern762 yes they do still experience the drag, but less so than the concord due to size and the aerodynamics involved in the shape of the vessel.
@@justabyte3157 cool ,thanks for the info
Fair enough, it's hard to monetize noise pollution
One important thing to mention is that the speed of sound is not relative to the ground, instead to the air around it. A 747 a few years ago had a large tailwind, causing the ground speed to be above Mach 1, but since relative to the air it was at its crusing speed of around Mach 0.9, it was not traveling above the speed of sound.
Also the speed of sound is relative to the Temperature of the air, the gas constant of the air, and the specific heat ratio of the air at that point, so it can vary based on where you are on earth. Specifically it is the square root of all of those variables combined
Oh my goodness, I stumbled into nerd physics tube. May I never leaveee
I am mechanical engineer by degree, and I took Aerodynamics as sub-subject of advance fluid-mechanics. CMIIW speed of sound in kph or mph depends on static ambient pressure. That said Mach 1 in sea level is not same speed (in terms of kph / mph) as Mach 1 in jet stream altitude +/- 30k-40k-ft.
That was the answer I was waiting for from Cleo. Instead, she went on about Concorde. I love Cleo Abrams, she should have included this bit. Thanks for calling attention to that point. ❤
@@Sleepingbear2222she's only got a minute, and the video was literally about NASAs new aircraft... Not explaining the speed of sound. You don't criticise a fish for not being a cow, do you?
@@CortanakyaNASA has been researching supersonic flight for decades.
Newer developments were drag reducing aerospikes, newest, new overall design shapes that massively reduce shockwave formation - no sonic boom.
Hence, the need for a new prototype plane. And finally, a budget to build it.
@@spvillano& NASA finally agreed that the answer was to make it more pointy! 😎
@@Cortanakya I don't know...we could criticize a fish for not being a cow if we want to. 😂
"Avg 737", Shows a 767 😐
And nobody noticed or cared. 😂
isnt that a 737? the rudder is like a 737 rudder
that is a 737 lol
It's Concorde, not "The Concorde." Concorde is a name, not a model.
And the SR-71 flew 1,100mph faster than the Concord...lol
And probably one of the most legendary ATC ground speed flex story's 😅
And the fastest speed a human has experienced was Apollo 10 at mach 36.
True it reached almost mach 6 or 5 or 7 and the Sr 71 was built by the Soviets becasue they couldn't get spotted on Americans raders including the f15 rader
@@Benkingme546 SR-71 was American.
@@Benkingme546I'm pretty sure this is a bait reply
I remember seeing the Concorde when I was a kid, for a brief period it had flights (I think from Paris) to Mexico City where I lived, the kids at school were all pointing up when it was flying above.
I also remember watching a documentary explaining how the Concorde was an engineering challenge because it was built in collaboration between France and the UK, back when the UK still was using the imperial system and France the metric, which is not a big deal in the calculations, but it is in the component sizes.
Keep in mind the speed of sound varies with altitude mostly due to temperature decreases as you go up. So a supersonic plane doesn’t have to be as fast as a supersonic train
The fastest train is Shinkasen with a top speed of 603 kph/374.687 mph and the fastest car is ThrustSSC with a top speed of 1227.93 kph/763 mph, the video is referring to the fastest street legal car the Bugatti Chiron.
Nah it's Koenigsegg regera
Speed of sound varies depending on altitude/air density
I never thought about that. But what would the speed of sound be in space... or would there not be? 😮
@@coltonstewart8698 Responding as a non-astronaut, non-aerodynamicist, non-super educatedist, I'd say there's no such thing as speed of sound in space, as there's no media for sound waves to travel through.
@@Resistculturaldecline you seem to have more of an education than most youtube commenters tbh
@@hdwoods3853 Thanks 😀. No smarts, just the curiosity and amazement of flight.
@@Resistculturaldecline
"educatedist" 🤣
Correct, in space no one can hear you scream!
It's time Americans should start using km instead of the dumb mile.
Ikr!
@@ChaoticAtomic and you also must like the farenhite that's even smarter choice
330?
Uh mate what model car are you thinking of because that thing isint road legal the fastest car for a "road legal" was the bugatti chiron at 303 not 330 and that was only when it was no longer electronically limited to its actual top speed of like 260