Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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Used to hear it living right outside Selfridge ANGB in 80's as a kid.
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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Living on the Space Coast we used to hear them all the time when the shuttles would return to Earth. Deep loud BOOM!!! Rattling windows, everything shook. E911's would light up in Dispatch.
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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About six or seven years ago, I was working in a clinic just outside the gate of Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. There was a sonic boom so loud that some pictures fell off the walls, and we initially thought that the HVAC unit on the roof had exploded I hope the hotdog pilot who did that one got his butt spanked... I bet you are a blast at parties!
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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late 60's heard them all the time
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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https://www.nasa.gov/X59I heard sonic booms many times in the 1960s. There were a surprising number of sonic booms over Newcastle Upon Tyne 1978-1980 If you have not read the “Aurora” aircraft story about Scottish air traffic controllers who swore they witnessed a USA plane end a refueling run, and then accelerate to nine times the speed of sound on their Scottish radar screen, it is an interesting read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom
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Did any of the reports say yet why the F15 broke the sound barrier over land? I'm guessing a pilot is having to face a review board now. I only recall hearing a sonic boom once in my life. I was in a meeting or training seminar at work not long after 9-11 and the class was interrupted by a loud boom like that. Later on the news I heard a passenger on a jet heading towards O Hare airport got unruly and Air National Guard F16s had been scrambled to intercept the airliner and they exceeded the sound barrier over Northern Illinois near my office causing the sonic boom. They used the usual excuse. Course correction. Lol I knew what it was right away and had a flashback to when I was a kid. Never even thought about it until it happened that most people under 60 have never heard one. They were going nuts! Here in Springfield in 1972 our air guard flew the F-4. They replaced the F84 Thunderstreaks that were deemed too wornout and dangerous to fly. They were the first guard unit in the nation to get the old worn out F-4's from Vietnam that they were replacing with improved models. Since the war was ongoing at this time they flew in a squadron of 8 and practiced at low level tree tops and under the trees over the river to train. Wasn't uncommon to have several sonic booms 1 right after the other. After 73 they would do it less but it still happened. The FAA didn't ban sonic flight until 73 so new boys with new toys broke quite a few windows.
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Lived in central Washington State. We would hear sonic booms all the time. SR71s out of Cali would linkup with a tanker over the north Cascades. Once refueled they would head out on their mission. Given their range and altitude I would imagine it didn’t take long for the Blackbird to reach and exceed 30,000 ft. Kinda made sense because Fairchild AFB in Spokane has KC135s based there. A specially outfitted KC135 would be used to do the refueling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbyXyxdoHd8
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