Based on a dream I had a few years ago. Seb here is showing off to his ground dwelling friends his ability to break the sound barrier by doing a low pass at over Mach 1. Unfortunately, he probably should not land there to brag about it, with the local authorities not impressed by the showering of glass along his entire path. At least the residents can get some fresh air...

I can't thank  LightConcorde enough for the sheer level of fine details and complexity of this piece. She absolutely nailed it and it's surreal to see something from my dream materialised.

I also thank her for taking onboard my paragraphs of details on how the expansion clouds would look like (the white clouds often trailing behind shockwaves at supersonic speeds, and behind low pressure zones). I really wanted to emphasise the Concorde's ability of supersonic flight showcasing the physical effects of the shockwaves. Since the real plane of course never flown low to the ground at supersonic speeds, some assumptions from online publicly available resources of similar aircraft under supersonic CFD simulations and images of military aircraft flying faster than sound was used as inspiration and guidance, with our imagination used to fill in the gaps.

At the same time, the snake half also needed to be emphasised. The bendy tail was found to be plausible, as a CFD simulation of a cylinder at Mach 1.5 (found online) shows the development of a von karman vortex street forming behind it even at this supersonic flow regime. Therefore, it is plausible for the tail to wave back and forth following the same motion of the vortex street, exactly like a flag waving behind a flag pole. For good measure we assumed an expansion cloud behind the vertical stabiliser due to the low pressure wake behind it, particularly when facing sideways to the airflow.

TL;DR this is a plausible illustration of what a flying snake faster than the speed of sound would look like, assuming a metal snake is plausible lol

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