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sonic bang

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sonic bang
loud sound made by a flying projectile when it passes through the sound barrier, that is by flying faster than the speed of sound.
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Concorde was in the news at the time because it had flown from Singapore to Melbourne in a record time of 3 hours and 37 minutes, and some actually believed a sonic bang from the supersonic airliner had travelled to Wales from the other side of the world - but it was later discovered that Concorde had not even been in the air at the time of the fireball sighting .
AT 2.30am, on Friday, November by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Well, let's put it this way, the reindeer would have more trouble than a spaceship re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, no-one seems to have noticed the sonic bang and Santa could do with a tip from Patrick Stewart about how the Starship Enterprise does it.
All booked up on vital Christmas matters by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
These typically include war, frost, sonic bangs and nuclear waste.
That's tornadoed it; DONNA SAW HOME ON TV by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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