Good Lord.
Good Lord.
Maybe someone told the Air Force that one of the houses has a Ruzzian family in it?
Probably shouldn’t be doing this type of flying in US urban areas. Maybe do it instead on the Mexican border at 50 feet.
Snowflakes.
Sonic booms weren’t uncommon in mid-century America.
In the early 90’s I was doing an Air Defense exercise just south of Astoria OR. At the end of the exercise had some B1’s overfly our CP breaking the sound barrier. A few miles south was a town called Sea Side, they head the sonic booms, didn’t know what they were and activated their Tsunami plan evacuating the town.
I recall when sonic booms were a norm as the local AB had a fighter squadron at the time. They did rattle homes, but we just lived with it. I recall nothing ever got broken.
And I also recall when coming back home from a place where bullets flying about was the norm, that when a sonic boom was heard I hit the floor.
But no one, no one ever called the cops because a jet was flying too fast. Today we have a bunch of effing babies. What are these people going to do if a real war comes to our home land? Call the Chinese or Russians and complain?
Grew up in Columbus Ohio in the 50’s and early 60’s. North American aviation was there (dad worked there). Sonic booms were a constant with testing of supersonic aircraft. We never had anything fall off the wall nor any broken windows.
I grew up right next to Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Oh.
We used to look forward to the booms over our houses.
At that time I believe they were restricted on the minimum altitude they could break sound barrier, so as not to blow out windows and such.
That’s the sound of FREEDOM, Cotizen!
i remember them doing sonicboom testing over our house when i was a kid...
My high school math teacher was a WWII war bride from Germany, (yes,I’m old). She was teaching class one day when a military jet broke the sound barrier and the boom was LOUD. She dove under her desk and some of the students started to laugh but her expression when she surfaced chilled us all.
She no doubt lived through bombings I can only imagine
Years ago, a multimillionaire in Omaha brought the Concorde to fly him and friends to Paris (I think) for his birthday. It couldn’t fly supersonic until it was over the ocean.
Growing up south of Houston, we heard sonic booms frequently from jets flying out of Ellington AFB.
Best one ever, dad and I are driving out west of Houston (mid ‘70’s) and see a silver object zip across the sky at a high rate of speed. “What was that? I don’t know? UFO?”
So we stop at a wrecking yard and as we walk across the parking lot, a T-38 goes over nearby about 100’ above the ground over mach 1. It was impressive! My though was he was giving his family or friends a show.
Back in the 80s I was doing an exploration drilling project in the supersonic flight area in Dixie Valley, NV. The pilots would make supersonic passes over the rig at about 100 feet. Quite startling if you didn’t happen to see them coming, because you sure didn’t hear them until they arrived.
As a long time pilot who has to follow the rules or face consequenses this irritates me. I guess if you make the rules you don’t have to follow them.
The sound of FReedom!
We had plenty of sonic booms in the 70s and although they always rattled the door and window panes, no glass ever cracked or broke. Also, nothing fell from the walls or tables even if they vibrated or rattled a bit.
This seems a bit much.
It must not have been much of a house. Frikkin pussies
Shhh.... If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of wet panties bunching.
My childhood home was on the flight path between a Navai Air base and a Naval Weapons Center where they made practice bomb drops from F-4’s. When it started, we had sonic booms daily with 1,000 ft flight decks. Cracked windows in the house. Scare you to death every time.
People raised hell and the occurrence declined but still happened now and again.