What Every Flyby Speed Looks Like at Street Level

What would every speed look like if it went past you on a New York sidewalk? The Wright Flyer, a Black Hawk, Concorde, the SR-71, the Space Station, a Saturn V, a meteoroid and the fastest thing people have ever built, each one down the same stretch of 5th Avenue at its real speed. Every shot is a 3D render. The speeds, sizes and shock waves are worked out from real figures, and the damage is a physics simulation with no real atmosphere or air (these speeds at this altitude aren't possible otherwise). Credits - Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): openstreetmap.org/copyright - Terrain: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (© DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA) - Land cover: ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 (© ESA WorldCover project / contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, CC BY 4.0) - Imagery: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (2024) - Models: NASA 3D Resources (ISS, Voyager; the Saturn V's paint after NASA/Michael D. Carbajal's model); NASA Science, Parker Solar Probe 3D model; Smithsonian 3D Digitization, 1903 Wright Flyer (CC0) - Motion capture: CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database, mocap.cs.cmu.edu (created with funding from NSF EIA-0196217) - Skies and textures: Poly Haven (CC0) - Sounds, CC BY 4.0 (freesound.org): Rockfall in mine.wav by Benboncan (freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/60085/) Top Fuel 5 - Santa Pod (B).wav by confusion_music (freesound.org/people/confusion_music/sounds/189893/) MassiveBlast.wav by daveincamas (freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/58507/) May 18 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption From 140 Miles Away.wav by daveincamas (freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/21432/) Crowd Screaming, A.wav by InspectorJ (freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/421852/) windy_driving.wav by joedeshon (freesound.org/people/joedeshon/sounds/117094/) Quarry blasting.wav by juskiddink (freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/82682/) 260222_093528_FR_Car_alarm_in_calm_street by kevp888 (freesound.org/people/kevp888/sounds/849001/) breaking window 002 141113_0451.wav by klankbeeld (freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/254993/) car alarm_250411.wav by miastodzwiekow (freesound.org/people/miastodzwiekow/sounds/119173/) Orchard Flats Demolition explosion sounds field-recording by Sonic-ranger (freesound.org/people/Sonic-ranger/sounds/196633/) BurlingtonIndustriesImplosion.wav by the_toilet_guy (freesound.org/people/the_toilet_guy/sounds/98852/) Shocked_Audience by unchaz (freesound.org/people/unchaz/sounds/150963/) Ikkunoita rikotaan kepillä / Breaking windows with stick by YleArkisto (freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/402016/) - Sounds, CC0 (freesound.org): qubodup, FreqMan, JoanCalsina, hhoffren, craigsmith, John Sipos, TRP, itinerantmonk108, soundingoffagain, guitarguy1985, JustLaz, Rowy101, jongrubbs, g0ggs, misosound, julujanus, alienistcog, cognito perceptu, sidohzen, Osvoldon, TheSpiderWriter; NASA and US National Archives recordings (public domain); Sonniss GDC Game Audio Bundle