If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. Poor babies....we used to hear sonic booms South of Seattle in the late 50s, Early 60s. Fascinating to me.
They go supersonic over Lake Michigan?
That is the sound of Freedom, Karens. Suck it up.
But nothing like the sound of an F-4 screaming down the runway with after-burners....
Used to hear them in Chicago mid to late 60’s. Nobody complained.
Growing up not too far from Tyndall Airforce Base in the 50s and 60s in NW Fla, we got some serious sonic booms, I mean window rattling, floor shaking blasts. Nowadays the planes apparently head out over the gulf before hitting supersonic speed. Back then the blasts were a regular occurence and nobody paid much attentioin to them.
Good grief, people are so easily-panicked these days. In the 1960s I would hear sonic booms frequently, along with dynamite blasts from a nearby limestone quarry. It was just one of those things of life. I now live on Lake Michigan. A while back, an unusually-big fog rolled in and, by the posts on the local FB page, some people seemed to fear that we had been hit by a poison gas attack. You know, if people would just familiarize themselves with the world and the normal things that are likely to happen, they wouldn’t be afraid that death had come a-knockin’ every time something like this occurs.
Lol. Growing up in L.A. in the 50s we heard them a lot. Test flights out of Edwards AFB and such. I loved ‘em. It’s the sound of freedom. The sound of courage pushing the envelope. Eff a buncha karens.
https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/loudest-graduation-gift-we-ever-got-180973593/
http://www.usafa68.org/History/ch5.htm
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. I’d rather hear occasional sonic booms than the damned infrasound from cheap computer subwoofers and the boombox car culture.
Spent 68-72 in USAF as Security Policeman. First one I saw was in Kunsan AB, ROK. Had the priviledge of watching the Thunderbirds practice in them in Nov. and Dec.1970 from the flight line at Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, NV. Big, heavy, loud and magnificently menacing as JP4 fumes belched out the back and the sound tickled your eardrums. Awe and pride inspiring! Years later I went to a Thunderbirds show at Beale and they had switched to F-16’s. More nimble but less thunder in those birds.
In 1988, I was on a drilling project in one of the supersonic flight areas in Nevada, east of Fallon. The lads used to come over the rig at less than 200 feet. If you didn’t see them coming, the first you knew about it was the sonic boom. Don’t know how it didn’t break windows in the trucks.
That F-15 is not from Nellis, it’s from RAF Lakenheath England, unless it’s TDY or something.
I grew up hearing them quiet often in NM
The apology was on a local FB page. The Karens got laughed down pretty hard.
Just the sound of freedom, baby!