BBC News - Sonic boom heard as RAF jets escort aircraft to Stansted Airport

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-64847214

 

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Typhoon jets from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were authorised to fly supersonic to assist a civilian plane.

Edited March 4, 20233 yr by martin-w

Sonic boom??  Nah!  That was me.  My black beans, chill and onion fritata I made for dinner last night backfired a bit!    X-squeeze me!

Really... and the shock wave traveled all the way across the Atlantic and rattled windows in London?

Good grief Charlie, is your house still standing?

Oh, you didn't hear about the house in San Francisco that blew up??   Sorry for going off topic!

Close to you @Mike A  1700 block of 22nd ave. in the Sunset!

The 86 y.o. army general from next door was yelling "Russians!" to himself. Poor word not allowed.

Why the ridiculous thread title?

There was no sonic boom over London? It was miles away.

Back in the early 1970s when I lived in San Diego, the regulations about military aircraft going supersonic near or over land were much more lax. We used to hear sonic booms all the time. Some were caused by Navy fighters doing training missions offshore. 

One in particular would occur about once per week - usually in the mid afternoon. It was many years later that I found out what caused it. In 2015 I attended a lecture by Brian Shul - former SR-71 pilot and author of the book “Sled Driver”.

Apparently at that time there was a standard training scenario where the Blackbird would take off from Beale AFB in Northern California, fly down the length of the state - turning left right over San Diego - then flying inland to New Mexico before turning back west to return to Beale. The whole flight was conducted at Mach 3.2 and above 80,000 feet. 

The Air Force was of course aware that these missions were laying down a sonic boom carpet over several western states, but they really didn’t care. As I said, it was a different time. 

Edited March 5, 20233 yr by JRBarrett

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

Why the ridiculous thread title?

There was no sonic boom over London? It was miles away.

 

Why do you have to compromise the thread by being rude? If I'm in error, politely say so. That's all that's required. 🙄

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

 

Why do you have to compromise the thread by being rude? If I'm in error, politely say so. That's all that's required. 🙄

Why exactly did you feel the need to put London in the title? 

1 hour ago, DD_Arthur said:

Why exactly did you feel the need to put London in the title? 

 

I made a mistake I'm a fallible human being. Obviously! Is that not allowed? 

Just be nice, and if somebody makes an error, then in a friendly way let them know they have. That's all that's required. 

Edited March 5, 20233 yr by martin-w

7 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

Back in the early 1970s when I lived in San Diego, the regulations about military aircraft going supersonic near or over land were much more lax. We used to hear sonic booms all the time.

I can confirm that. Growing up here in San Francisco in the 1960s-1970s we would hear sonic booms frequently. In addition to AFBs in Northern California, we also had Alameda NAS, and those guys would do extra curricular “stuff” like flying under the Golden Gate Bridge.

20 hours ago, charliearon said:

Close to you @Mike A  1700 block of 22nd ave. in the Sunset!

Yeah, that was serious. My wife’s cousin lives on 22nd Ave. three blocks from there. We’re close to Sloat Blvd. Over 100 fire fighters responded.  Nightmare scenario for SFFD is the Sunset with all the attached wood frame houses and frequent wind, potential for a blaze to get out of hand quickly. So if there’s an explosion like that, there’s going to be an immediate large response. (attn Moderator(s): sorry for off-topic color commentary, but since I was cited in a post, it wouldn’t have been polite for me not to respond 😏)

Definite sonic booms in the 50's and 60's in the Los Angeles area.  NAS Los Alamitos, Norton Air force Base in San Bernardino, and maybe even some test aircraft out of Edward Air Force Base.