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[arconaut]

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier:

[ssltech]

...that barrier never really looked all that sound to me.

-I'm not surprised that it broke.

[arconaut]

Luckily he broke it without having bought it.

[KB_S1]

Anyone here been beyond that barrier?

I see very low flying fighters on a regular basis but they are all below that magic velocity. Sometimes they must be very close though and it is incredible how fast they appear and subsequently disappear.

[Barkley McKay]

KB_S1 wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 16:51

Anyone here been beyond that barrier? I see very low flying fighters on a regular basis but they are all below that magic velocity. Sometimes they must be very close though and it is incredible how fast they appear and subsequently disappear.

We get the Tornados wizzing along the Yorkshire valleys.
Again they disappear as quickly as they arrive...and scare the sh*t out of you in the process!

barks

[KB_S1]

Tornados of the RAF variety are almost a daily sight. Some so low you can see the pilots.

One flew over me in Glencoe a couple of months back when cycling. Great view coming towards me following the mile long straight road.

Had a couple of F-15s pass in a valley last week. They were VERY loud.

[ssltech]

Barkley McKay wrote

We get the Tornados wizzing along the Yorkshire valleys. Again they disappear as quickly as they arrive...and scare the sh*t out of you in the process!

That's the glory of a Joe Meek production!

[Hallams]

Was it covered by a warranty?

[KB_S1]

Hallams wrote on Thu, 14 October 2010 23:07

Was it covered by a warranty?

Funny you should mention this.

I had to check out the particulars of our home insurance policy recently.
There is a specific exclusion for damage to property and contents as a result of a sonic boom.

Bit of a strange moment when reading through it all.

[ktownson]

I grew up about 60 miles as the test pilot flies from Mojave desert during the early 60's when they were regularly testing the X-15 and other supersonic aircraft at Edwards AFB.

I remember sonic booms that shook books off of shelves. In school the teachers would just stop when we heard the buildup, then about four or five seconds of silence, then...BOOM! And back to normal until the next one came about.

[Bill_Urick]

Yeah, I saw it before I heard about it.
Not that impressed.
Wake me when someone breaks the "light barrier".
Or sometime previously.
Whichever comes first.

[Paul Cavins]

My brother was an F-14 pilot back in the 80's. He told me once that when he was doing low altitude/high speed training out in the desert, his commanding officer, who was also at low altitude, misjudged their location, and they flew over a little general store in the middle of nowhere, traveling above the sound barrier. It took out a lot of the windows and fekked up the store quite a bit.

PC