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Old 30th January 2009 | 08:37
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Lafyar Cokov
 
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The nose/engines ones looks like early on-set of a sonic shock wave - but I would imagine that under reasonably normal atmospheric conditions the aircraft would have to be doing about M0.85 is for these to start to form. Not sure what Vmo in the 742 is but I would have thought this to be rare - although low air pressure may aid the formation of these effects.

See this for an image of the later development of a wave.
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