Didn't hear any loud bang personally, but seemed to have caused quite a noise elswhere.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328
Sonic boom!
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The sonic boom is I think a very distinctive sound,
I always remember when I first heard it, Halfway across the Atlantic ocean on a Destroyer and we heard the sonic boom from Concorde Which would have been at full altitude. Still remember the noise to this day.
Bet that Helicopter pilot had brown trousers when the Typhoons turned up.
I always remember when I first heard it, Halfway across the Atlantic ocean on a Destroyer and we heard the sonic boom from Concorde Which would have been at full altitude. Still remember the noise to this day.
Bet that Helicopter pilot had brown trousers when the Typhoons turned up.
Just airborne hooning. They were obviously testing their defoamed sound generator mod.
Loved the bit where they said in the article, they heard the noise and then saw the plane. The plane is well gone at this point.
They very very rarely go supersonic even responding to emergency intercept requests. There are supersonic tracks, where the new typhoons are tested but these are out over the water for noise reasons. In the old days of Concorde it's acceleration point was in the Bristol channel, not allowed to be supersonic before that point.
Tapatalking on my iPad.......
They very very rarely go supersonic even responding to emergency intercept requests. There are supersonic tracks, where the new typhoons are tested but these are out over the water for noise reasons. In the old days of Concorde it's acceleration point was in the Bristol channel, not allowed to be supersonic before that point.
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My school used to be in EIndhoven near the military airport with F16s on them, so the sonic boom was heard at least 5 times a day. You normally hear the engine noise a bit later.
Funny how times change as what was normal event a few years ago is now such a big deal
Funny how times change as what was normal event a few years ago is now such a big deal
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Up at my girlfriends grams caravan there is 2 air
Bases working about 10 miles, constantly do flyovers above caravans and over sea and I have heard the bang before. Sounds like someone let off a shotgun a foot away from you
Lol
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Bases working about 10 miles, constantly do flyovers above caravans and over sea and I have heard the bang before. Sounds like someone let off a shotgun a foot away from you
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It looks even cooler than it sounds :
And here : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=br...qMcfe8AOV4bTICQ&ved=0CAwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672
Apparently this can happen at speeds lower or higher than the sound barrier - anyone who's been to an air show will have seen bubbles of condensation flash in and out of existence around fast jets, though they tend just to be over the wings and not as defined. It's caused by a rapid change in pressure at high speed, which can happen any time - and would happen behind the shock wave caused by breaking the sound barrier.
I just love stuff like this, sorry
I would have given a major part of my anatomy to be a fast jet pilot when I was younger I'd probably still give a major part just to get a ride in the back seat of one...
And here : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=br...qMcfe8AOV4bTICQ&ved=0CAwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672
Apparently this can happen at speeds lower or higher than the sound barrier - anyone who's been to an air show will have seen bubbles of condensation flash in and out of existence around fast jets, though they tend just to be over the wings and not as defined. It's caused by a rapid change in pressure at high speed, which can happen any time - and would happen behind the shock wave caused by breaking the sound barrier.
I just love stuff like this, sorry
I would have given a major part of my anatomy to be a fast jet pilot when I was younger I'd probably still give a major part just to get a ride in the back seat of one...
It's quite amazing to think how fast the speed of sound is, 330 m/seconds, you can just about manage to visualise this speed, yet how painfully slow it is wrt light. Then how mind bogglingly big the milky way is, which contains 300 or so billion stars, one of which is our solar system and then our milky way is just one galaxy of billions that make up the verse.
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I love Big Deep Thoughts. One of my favourite iPad apps is the Top 100 Hubble Photographs - so much more than just pretty pictures.
That's one of the best, and most compact, tangiental streams of consciousness I've witnessed in a long time sars, made me smile
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Bing said:sars said:
I love Big Deep Thoughts. One of my favourite iPad apps is the Top 100 Hubble Photographs - so much more than just pretty pictures.
That's one of the best, and most compact, tangiental streams of consciousness I've witnessed in a long time sars, made me smile
Makes you wonder what she has been smoking
I no longer smoke, but Rioja I like.......
It was Bing's fault posting that picture, it just got my Brain going.....our cars are limited to a 155 mph and that can be quite scary, speed of sound is a few steps forward of that. But sound is slow compared to light, I mean really slow, dawdling in fact, light travels at almost 300 million metres/second.
You see thinking about how fast light travels, makes me feel so small and insignificant that any problems I might have are thus relatively trivial, It takes light from our sun 4.2 years to get to our nearest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri. The centre of our galaxy is some 26,000 light years away and is 100,000 light years in diameter. Our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, is only 2,500,000 light years away.
Homo sapien, us in other words, have been around for a paultry 200,000 years, the image of the first of man may have left our galaxy but is still crossing the void to another and won't arrive for two million or so years.......
It was Bing's fault posting that picture, it just got my Brain going.....our cars are limited to a 155 mph and that can be quite scary, speed of sound is a few steps forward of that. But sound is slow compared to light, I mean really slow, dawdling in fact, light travels at almost 300 million metres/second.
You see thinking about how fast light travels, makes me feel so small and insignificant that any problems I might have are thus relatively trivial, It takes light from our sun 4.2 years to get to our nearest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri. The centre of our galaxy is some 26,000 light years away and is 100,000 light years in diameter. Our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, is only 2,500,000 light years away.
Homo sapien, us in other words, have been around for a paultry 200,000 years, the image of the first of man may have left our galaxy but is still crossing the void to another and won't arrive for two million or so years.......
precious metals come from supernovae
- I quite like that one
- the time scale is just so far beyond my tiny brain
- considering it makes three score and ten quite heartbreaking.
- I quite like that one
- the time scale is just so far beyond my tiny brain
- considering it makes three score and ten quite heartbreaking.