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Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom #2997547
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom [Re: second 70] #2997548
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Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom [Re: dart4forte] #2997554
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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.

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Are sonic booms a rare occurrence now? Seems to me back in the '60's it was a weekly thing to hear one if not several sonic booms in a lot of places around the USA, that was pretty cool. up NASA put a stop to it over land (USA) for commercial aircraft in the early '70's, did they eventually put a stop or reduction to military aircraft too over land? The Space Shuttle, if you were in Florida during landing would create a double sonic boom(s) and that was pretty cool too......

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/supersonic-student.pdf

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Originally Posted by A12
Are sonic booms a rare occurrence now? Seems to me back in the '60's it was a weekly thing to hear one if not several sonic booms in a lot of places around the USA, that was pretty cool. up NASA put a stop to it over land (USA) for commercial aircraft in the early '70's, did they eventually put a stop or reduction to military aircraft too over land? The Space Shuttle, if you were in Florida during landing would create a double sonic boom(s) and that was pretty cool too......

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/supersonic-student.pdf


I was thinking the same thing! I remember hearing them quite often as a kid ......we didn't think anything of it at the time. I'm in southern WI so I don't know exactly which airfield they were flying out of back then but I remember them for sure....late 60s early 70s?? up

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Psht. I live +/- 5 miles from the Eglin AFB reservation (450,000 acres) which has numerous bombing and munitions test ranges. We get window rattling explosions often.

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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 [Re: MarkZ] #2997597
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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 [Re: larrymopar360] #2997600
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Most everything you ever wanted to know about sonic booms from the USAFs FAQ sheets. It says supersonic flight must be above 30,000 feet over land per their regulations. I wonder if that F15 was above 30,000 feet?
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104540/sonic-boom/

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Originally Posted by A12
Are sonic booms a rare occurrence now? Seems to me back in the '60's it was a weekly thing to hear one if not several sonic booms in a lot of places around the USA, that was pretty cool. up


Living in SoCal during the 60's, heard them all the time. Almost a daily/weekly occurance.

Re: Home video catches yesterdays sonic boom [Re: crackedback] #2997625
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In the 60’s around Seattle (Boeing country) they were common. I even remember passenger jets doing it, though I’m pretty sure it was just no-passenger test flights.

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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 eek
I hope the hotdog pilot who did that one got his butt spanked...

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Originally Posted by DrCharles
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 eek
I hope the hotdog pilot who did that one got his butt spanked...


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late 60's heard them all the time


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Growing up near Offutt AFB in the 50-60's they were common and occasionally broke windows wink

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Yep, in Texas growing up we heard them as a kid all the time but they were always pretty high up. In the 80’s, Dad and I had a dear lease in the Big Bend region of Texas. Traveling from Abilene, we went trough some remote areas. On several occasions south of San Angelo, we encounter some F4 Phantoms on low level training runs. The were not super sonic but the would scare the crap out of you when they flew over at low level. I don’t remember how low they were but you could not see them coming for the trees. My former brother in law flew in the gulf war after hostilities had ceased. They got intel that Saddam was having a victory party some where with his troops and equipment in a big gathering. His group of F111 flew over Mach 1 pluse at 500 feet. He said at that level it would really tear up some stuff. They never saw them coming to hide!

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I 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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Originally Posted by Mastershake340
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.


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