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Posted on 12/22/2021 3:30:54 PM PST by Retain Mike
Master Sergeant Steven Conklin, spokesman for the 142nd Wing, said the military is authorized to fly supersonic 15 miles beyond the coastline, but pilots should not have the nose of the jet pointed toward the coast.
The 142nd Wing in a Facebook post apologized for causing concern among coastal residents.
"During this training, we inadvertently went supersonic, and caused a sonic boom while pointed slightly toward the coastline while greater than 15 miles away from land," the 142nd Wing posted on Facebook. "We understand that this caused concern from our coastal residents and for that we sincerely apologize."
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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.
Call PETA, the fish are terrified...
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.
Socialists' hate that sound.
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.
Ah the F-4 Phantom. The F4 Phantom is living proof that given enough power even a brick will fly!
Missouri is not too close to any coastline but we routinely hear the boom.
Testing stuff from Boeing over the Mark Twain NF.
Saw a few go SS at altitude, pretty cool.
The boom travels about 5 mikes per 1k feet, so a jet at 10k leaves a wake 50mi wide....
My Lilly livered neighbor complains about the noise but I remind her that that’s the sound of good men willing and able able to do violence on her behalf....
Ah the sound of turbines and the smell of jp8 in the morning, almost as good as tge smell of nitroguanimide and nitrocellulose in the morning....
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.
Yes, but a wickedly beautiful airplane. They used to buzz us on the deck sometimes when I was on a tin can off Vietnam. Never ever saw one coming.
Loved the sound of the F-4’s in the landing pattern landing at North Island San Diego. They sounded so mean.
Sadly, we are no longer free.
Countries such as Serbia enjoy more freedom than the US.
https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/loudest-graduation-gift-we-ever-got-180973593/
http://www.usafa68.org/History/ch5.htm
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I’d rather hear occasional sonic booms than the damned infrasound from cheap computer subwoofers and the boombox car culture.
Are you familiar with an acetylene cannon?
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