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Originally Posted by Xist
The idea was that you could exceed the speed of sound without creating a sonic boom if you did not have wings and in order to fly,
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Supersonic wingless aircraft do create sonic booms. When the V2's bombarded London in WW11, they produced a characteristic double boom. The first boom was the explosion of the missile when it hit the ground, the second heard boom was the sonic boom created by the missile when it entered the upper atmosphere which lagged behind the missile in reaching the ground. The V2 impacted at about Mach 2.