Loudest Sound Ever?

@barts  - Sorry to hear that Englishtown is no longer. I think a lot of dragstrips are headed in that direction.

I haven't been in years. Need to take my 17 year old son. He loves all things automotive and I've been talking up the top-fuel experience for years..... 

Led Zeppelin. Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, TX. 1975.

@onhwy61-  Scientifically speaking: shockwaves and sound waves are two distinctly different phenomena.

    A shockwave resulting from an energetic enough explosion, can travel 100 times faster than the speed of sound.

    A shockwave's wave-form also differs from that of sound, as does how it affects the surrounding gas.

                    ie: https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00326956.pdf

    However one defines it: the sound of Krakatoa's eruptions were heard 3000 miles from the source, on Rodrigues Island.    

                                                        What a blast!

for all the service members - thank you for the sacrifice you made for our country.

My office in St Louis was at the door where every F4 ( etc ) rolled out. Certainly legendary loud and proud.

On top fuel, I grew up 10 miles from Norwalk Raceway Park on Ohio 13. And ran crew and drove a bracket 69 RT with Keith Black 440 Wedge. You guys are so right, that was tame compared to the chest impact noise of Top fuel……i gotta get to an event soon…

carry on !