Photograph: Another Sonic Boom for London

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Another Sonic Bang' Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Another Sonic Bang'

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Another Sonic Bang'
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group
© Mirrorpix

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Another Sonic Bang'
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group
© Mirrorpix

Daily Herald photograph entitled 'Another Sonic Bang'. The photograph shows graph depicting the fourth and final sonic boom recorded at the Ministry of Defence, Whitehall. Dated July 22nd 1967.

Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive, indexed as Noise - Sonic Bangs.

Another Sonic Bang

This is how the forth and final sonic boom in the current series of tests was recorded at the Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London, July 21.

Newsmen had been invited to inspect equipment used for testing carried out by the Ministry of Technology. The boom was 'manufactured' by a lightening jet fighter plane for research purposes.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/31624
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
photograph and silver gelatin print
credit:
Daily Herald Archive