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Inspired by another topic of mine, I found this for our resident Phantom Phreak! I think this is COOL! Have you built this Phantom Paul?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWD1UV4yNvw

That's the later F-4S version. I have built the J when I was a kid. I wouldn't mind doing this in 1/72 to go with all the pretty colour F-4's I'm doing. Thanks for posting. BTW I am hard at work today thanks. I spent the best part of 3.5hrs this morning/arvo taking pics of Hornets, Hawks, Caravans, 737's, Fokker 100's etc. It's a hard life but someone has to do it

Impressed! You didn't take long to bite. Glad you're having a ripper day at work. Hope we'll see some of your snaps!

I'll chuck a few up later. I need a way better camera than the clunker I have but it'll do for now. For someone that's not really into F/A-18s, I took quite a few pics. There was some cool tail art and some unusual markings on them

I like how most youtube videos relate the forming of a vapour cone as breaking the sound barrier. It's not called a sonic boom for nothing.

If you listen carefully you can here it mate

Not convinced. If he broke the sound barrier that close to the bloke with the camera it wouldn't leave any doubt. I think he probably flirted with it but didn't break it.

I reckon he did. I've heard a Mirage do it in Darwin and it sounded similar to that mate

I'm with Paul on this one. I think he just busts the Mach at the 49 sec mark. There is a audible thump (keep in mind that the microphone would be completely saturated at this point) and the vapour cone (Prandtl-Glauert Singularity "effect") looks well aft - perhaps near the tail at this point. This suggests super-sonic flow over most of the airframe at least.

Two interesting mach busting events I've heard/read about.

In 1986, a Mirage performing a low level display once busted a lot of glass at local rose farms around RAAF Edinburgh requiring substantial payout to these businesses - opps!

A F-105 infamously shattered a lot of glass at the USAF Academy in the late 60's doing a low level graduation flyby. Col. Robin Olds was the USAF Superintendent at the time.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19680601&id=YfQhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MpsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5064,23421

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_cone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transonic

There the big ol F-4 certainly "barrier-busted" in this vid.....you can hear it!!!
TOR