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To: A.A. Cunningham

No? It makes that boom and the windows shake. What, if not a sonic boom?


28 posted on 08/26/2007 7:18:03 AM PDT by PinkDolphin
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To: PinkDolphin

Military jets are forbidden by law from breaking the sound barrier over populated areas of the United States and only do so in extremely limited areas, training ranges, and circumstances, scrambling to intercept a hostile or unidentified threat. If the sound barrier was indeed being broken you’d have a lot of broken windows and lawsuits being filed against Uncle Sam. While it is not impossible that you did indeed hear a rare sonic boom, it is highly unlikely. Military aircraft, particularly fighters, are extremely loud and even when flying subsonic can cause windows to shake and buildings to rattle.


31 posted on 08/26/2007 7:38:19 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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