[Chode]

i remember them doing sonicboom testing over our house when i was a kid...

[rlmorel]

When I was in the Navy, the Tomcats used to do supersonic fly-bys of the carrier at flight deck level, right up close.

It amazed me.

There was something completely alien about seeing it coming...the shockwave flashing on and off intermittently not a sound.

Then, the thing would zip past, still no sound, but moving faster than you have ever seen anything move.

Then...

BOOM!

Even the guys who hated being in the Navy would jump up and down, pumping their fists, and cheer!