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Two American fighter jets flew over Dublin today — and it was very VERY LOUD
The Journal ^ | 8-31-14 | Darren Martin

Posted on 08/31/2014 5:05:14 AM PDT by FlJoePa

‘WHAT ON EARTH is that,” was a question muttered in TheJournal.ie offices, and, if Twitter is anything to go by — plenty of other places in Dublin this lunchtime.

Why?

Well, well, these two planes carried out a fly-past of Croke Park (and, by extension, the city) as part of this afternoon’s American Football event — and scared the bejaysus out of everyone.

There were reports of car and house alarms being set off in the area.

While one reader contacted us to say it sounded “like an earthquake” from Meath Street and was a “very frightening experience”.

“The glass shook at a pub in Westmoreland Street as I was walking by,” another TheJournal.ie reader told us.

No doubt there were also quite a few startled seagulls in the city in the wake of the fly-past, which, at the risk of labouring a point, was really really INCREDIBLY LOUD…


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Sports
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To: FlJoePa

I they there to take out IRA targets?


21 posted on 08/31/2014 5:50:44 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

Grew up by an Air force base in West Texas and T-37’s, 38’s, F-104’s and 105’s were either constantly in the air or they were testing engines over by the flight line. People would come visit and ask how do you sleep with all the noise? I guess we just got used to it.


22 posted on 08/31/2014 5:51:27 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: FlJoePa; Fred Nerks
What ever happened to the tradition of Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig ? What a bunch of milk sop wimps in this article! Unworthy of quaffing their own Guiness!

Know this: Not everyone in Ireland has the wimp liberal gurly mahn disease!

Brian Boru photo boru1_zpsf6efff5e.jpg

Brian Boru - The Last High King of Ireland

23 posted on 08/31/2014 5:54:13 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: FlJoePa

No kidding - not used to the sounds of Freedom. They fly over us, here in LA, often. No biggee.


24 posted on 08/31/2014 5:54:56 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop

I’m in the flight path of a a military airstrip. We just pause our conversations until we can hear each other again. I never hear anyone complain


25 posted on 08/31/2014 6:01:25 AM PDT by Josa
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To: DAC21

They might, flying like bats out of hades. The ones over us average every three to five minutes, sometimes less, and the most that ever happens is a painting that has to be straightened back up on the wall.

Of course, I’ve lived here for for decades and don’t even hear them anymore.

Not one has ever set off my house alarm.


26 posted on 08/31/2014 6:07:11 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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To: miss marmelstein

But why would somebody wet their pants because a car alarm went off?

Everybody has to have a hobby.


27 posted on 08/31/2014 6:07:38 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: FlJoePa

Pffft. Pikers.

Loud is the sound of a B1 Lancer at takeoff with full afterburner.

In the right conditions it will echo for 15 miles.


28 posted on 08/31/2014 6:07:48 AM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: Crazieman

I remember when the B-52s took off at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth.


29 posted on 08/31/2014 6:14:43 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: FlJoePa

A couple days after 9/11 I was walking the dogs after dark. No planes were flying yet. 2 fighters (I presume) went overhead from north to south, probably heading towards New York. They were on afterburners and it was one of the loudest things I have ever heard.


30 posted on 08/31/2014 6:18:25 AM PDT by Harry Pothead (Go Sarah! I still love her...)
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Carswell AFB

That had to be many a moon ago.

31 posted on 08/31/2014 6:24:18 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: OpusatFR

When I lived in Tucson, the C-130s flying to and from Davis-Monthan would sometimes set off car alarms. I don’t remember any being set off by jet aircraft.


32 posted on 08/31/2014 6:24:24 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: FlJoePa

I guess Obama figures he can keep those Dubliners in line...


33 posted on 08/31/2014 6:28:59 AM PDT by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: Crazieman

B-1B takeoff and flyby was the absolute highlight of the Van Nuys airshow... I would schedule vacations to go visit my brother and catch departure day.


34 posted on 08/31/2014 6:29:29 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: FlJoePa

I love that sound.

When I was a kid, the Blue Angels were around, and one flew right over my house, couldn’t have been at any more than 50 feet.

Yeah!


35 posted on 08/31/2014 6:31:41 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: VanDeKoik

It’s all part of King Putt’s global strategy. A diversionary tactic to attack Ireland should put ISIS in paralyzed fear.


36 posted on 08/31/2014 6:31:43 AM PDT by ImNotLying
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To: Battle Axe

F-35’s make the Blackbird seem like a whisper.


37 posted on 08/31/2014 6:31:44 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: FlJoePa

Very short video on what that feels like.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=B-1+Bomber+Flying+Over+Water&Form=VQFRVP#view=detail&mid=5DE3C5C98BCC87824A3B5DE3C5C98BCC87824A3B


38 posted on 08/31/2014 6:33:57 AM PDT by outofsalt
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To: mad_as_he$$

An F-4 with it’s twin J-79 engines flying at treetop height in afterburner will make you deaf for two weeks. Beats the F-35 IMHO. :)


39 posted on 08/31/2014 6:38:25 AM PDT by ImNotLying
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To: FlJoePa

That, dear Irish friends, has long been known as “the sound of freedom.”


40 posted on 08/31/2014 6:39:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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