The pilot of the airplane won't actually feel the sonic boom.

飞机的驾驶员实际上不感觉到音爆。

So the airplane won't actually be in the sonic boom.

因此，飞机实际上不受到音爆的影响。

As you can imagine, sonic booms can be disruptive to life on the ground.

不难想象，音爆表生物造成何种破坏。

And Christine Darden is best known for her sonic boom research.

克里斯汀·达顿以其音爆研究而闻名。

This can be heard from the ground as a sonic boom.

在面上 可以听到一声“音爆”。

To understand how this might work, it's important to understand how a sonic boom happens.

要解其工作原，必须先解音爆是如何产生的。

So right across the sonic boom, you have a change in pressure and temperature and density.

因此，在音爆的瞬间，压力、温度和密度都发生变化。

When I heard a sonic boom for the first time, I finally understood why it was such a big deal.

当我第一次听到音爆的时候，我终于明为何如此重要。

But they've had to spend decades researching ways to fix issues with supersonic travel like a little thing called Sonic boom.

但是此前他们已经花数十年的时间来研究如何解决超音速飞行的问题，比如一个叫做音爆的“小”问题。

It's designed to go supersonic without making the loud sonic boom, that -- that we've been accustomed to hearing for decades now.

的设计目的是达到超音速，而不产生巨大的音爆，我们已经听几十年。

It's similar to a sonic boom but with light instead of sound.

类似于音爆，但用的是光而不是声音。

But once in the air, this nose is key to reducing the sonic boom.

但一旦飞到空中，这个鼻子就是减少音爆的关键。

As they reached Mach 2 the sonic booms could be heard throughout the desert below.

当他们达到2马赫时， 整个沙漠都可以听到音爆。

The air exited tunnels with a sonic boom that could be heard 400 meters away.

空气离开隧道时发出音爆， 400 米外都能听到。

But what exactly causes the sonic boom in the first place?

但是，究竟是什么导致音爆？

Since a bullet moves faster than the speed of sound it creates a sonic boom.

由于子弹的移动速度比音速快， 因此产生音爆。

When an object moves at supersonic speed, it generates a continuous moving shockwave known as a sonic boom.

当物体以超音速运动时，产生连续移动的冲击波，称为音爆。

This Sonic boom, an enormous amount of sound energy created when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, which is about 750 miles per hour.

音爆指的是飞机突破音障时产生的巨大声能，时速约为 750 英里。

But a common misconception is that a sonic boom doesn't just boom once when the plane hits  that speed.

但一个常见的误解是，当飞机达到这个速度时，音爆不仅仅爆炸一次。

When they were retired in 2003 mainly due to unsustainable operational costs, and complaints about the thunderous sonic boom nothing took their place until now.

其在2003年退休，主要是因为不可持续的运营成本，和乘客雷鸣般的音爆的抱怨，们一直无法被取代，直到现在。