[Tijeras_Slim]

It also depends on how much boom is acceptable, and that varys a lot from individual to individual.

Conservative: "The sound of freedom, cool!"

Liberal: "How dare those warmongers annoy me!"

[giznort]

Back in the 60s when I was a kid, sonic booms were frequent. I don't recall when I stopped hearing them, but when I was in Vegas a couple of years ago in the area of Nellis AFB, I heard a couple booms and it was a reassuring sound to me (this was BEFORE 9-11) that our country's military was present and accounted for!

[night reader]

Conservative: "The sound of freedom, cool!"

Liberal: "How dare those warmongers annoy me!"

Back when we were at Code Orange and the fighters were flying combat air patrol, I was sure hoping not to have anything that would justify them going supersonic! That would have been a frightening sound!

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Or as the Beaufort public relations office used to tell people complaining about sonic booms - "Are you sure they're ours?"