Floridians should be educated about A'tuin in reprogramming camps run by lefty Dems so they can be fearless citizens .
Posted on 01/16/2021 9:04:22 AM PST by Enterprise
People were baffled. They reported what they felt and saw on social media. People from the Keys to Palm Beach County reported the shake.
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It’s likely it was not something on earth, but in the stratosphere. According to Zach Covey, the meteorologist at the Sun Sentinel’s news partner WPEC-Ch. 12, it was the sonic boom of a military aircraft breaking the sound barrier offshore.
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Uh-huh.
Air pressure will do it.
Lemme guess... chasing a Tic-Tac spaceship?
From memory, it repeats again and again under the flight path, until the plane speed is sub-sonic.
BA BOOOM! Then you hear the jet.
Shakes the windows in the house I tell ya.
Swallwell was visiting and ate a burrito
We used to hear them often when I was young, then they passed a law or something. Used to feel like betting hit in the chest, not hard, but a pretty good thump
We hear lots of them out in the west.
Well sort of.... Every point directly beneath and across the flight path will experience a short duration “boom” as the aircraft passes overhead. So, yeah, it’s possible people in several counties could hear it as time and flight path went by. Just my $.02.
But you already knew that. ☺
10 seconds?
Floridians should be educated about A'tuin in reprogramming camps run by lefty Dems so they can be fearless citizens .
What you posted is essentially correct. The BOOM is a cone spreading out behind the aircraft that is supersonic.
“Well, I’ve experienced earthquakes which might have affected several counties, but I have yet to experience a sonic boom which shakes the homes of several counties.”
I have.
“From memory, it repeats again and again under the flight path, until the plane speed is sub-sonic.”
It is a continuous pressure wave the travels with the plane.
The ‘boom’ is experienced as the pressure wave passes.
When I did flight testing at Edwards AFB, CA, supersonic flight was allowed only in a specified “supersonic corridor”. We had to log starting and ending points, along with times. This log was kept in flight ops to use if folks called in to report booms/etc. Also, one hears a double boom - essentially one for the front and one for the back of the aircraft (not an exact description, but’ll do for now).
Were there any YUGE spaceships overhead? /s
Thank you.
Maybe. But they were hidden by the clouds.
Well that's something people in Ctrl FL are used to from when the shuttles came back. They landed in FL occasionally. Sanford airport was the only runway long enough. I lived not too far from there and it was a big bada boom.
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