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President Obama was in town today (Seattle) and casued a sonic boom!!!

limjack

limjack

Charter Member 2016
President Obama was in town today (Seattle) and casued a sonic boom!!!

Had a interesting thing happen at work today. I was checking inventory when I heard a Huge explosion of some sort and boy did it shake our building. I tried to reason it out in my head to what it might be and then went ahead with my business when a second blow the same as the first sounded off. Folks were then running out of doors wondering what the heck was that and is it safe to be in this building. Turned out it was a couple fighters that were scrambled from PDX to engage and aircraft that had invaded the Presidents air space here in Seattle. I think that was my first and second sonic boom I have ever heard. We were releived to find out the source about 30 min. after it happend. Some of the folks thought we were being bombed. Scary stuff, but fun once you know what it was. Thought I would share the excitement.
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Jim
 
Wow...I'm only a few years older than you and I can remember our little house shaking a few times during the the late 50's or early 60's.
Did they shoot him down?:bump:
 
I have experienced at least two sonic booms. Once walking next to a building, on a clear summer day, for a second or so, a tremendous boom. Looked around, saw nothing. Felt like pressure more than a sound. Second time, inside a building, the boom rattled everything. Later found out an Air Force jet went supersonic by mistake in the area.
 
As a kid in southern California when my Dad was stationed out there, sonic booms were fairly common. I miss 'em.
 
My dad worked at Republic building the F-105's. The test pilots would fly them out over the bay and break the sound barrier. I always heard them when I was a kid. In 2001 I was on the Nimitz as an observer / guest of the Chief of Staff and an F-14 did a fly-by and broke the S/B right along side the ship. VERY impressive. :applause:

Don
 
When I was a kid visiting my grandparents yearly in Rocky Ford, Colorado, we heard Sonic Booms almost daily. They must have had an airbase nearby where they were doing their runs. Its like a small earthquake and a battleship shooting one of its cannons. Immense. Shakes the windows, dishes in the cabinets...



Bill
 
The most best sonic boom I've ever experienced was from the second floor of a building at the airport the plane flew over. Flight sim building, NAS Lemoore CA, FA-18C blew past. You see, the building will move when the shock wave hits it, and the walls will shake. The overall experience is much more impressive than from outside on the solid unmoving ground! Nobody knew it was coming, and one of our graphic artists actually, literally, dove under his desk. That was darned funny.
 
Willy said:
As a kid in southern California when my Dad was stationed out there, sonic booms were fairly common. I miss 'em.
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Me too.
We were along one of the training routes for Mountain Home AFB in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana.
That's when Mountain Home was still operating F-4's.
Not sure if they were supposed to be exceeding the sound limit, we'd catch a boom every now and then.
Rattled the house, but it didn't matter to us kids.
Was fun at night, we'd run outside and the watch twin exhaust cones from the F-4's streaking away like two little blue comets in the night sky. ;)
 
One time I was walking inside the hangar bay of USS Nimitz when one of the planes, during one of our many "air shows" for visiting mucky-mucks, flew past at mach 1.0+. Don't even know if it was a Hornet or a Mighty Grumman Tomcat (baby), but, I do know it made a rush of wind through the hangar deck that was really cool!
 
I don't get it...how can sonic booms be that "unknown"? When I was a kid, growing up in south central Ohio, my home county was the smack dab center of the training space for the Ohio Air National Guard planes out of Rickenbacker AFB. I saw a LOT of A-7s, and a fair number of F-16s. And was lucky enough to see the super sexy B-1 a handful of times. And I heard A LOT of sonic booms. I know, jets are not supposed to go super sonic over populated areas...but my home/birth county only had 24 thousand people in it...that's the entire county population. Not sure if the OHIO ANG guys had some sort of clearance for super sonic flight since the area was so sparsely populated, or if they just did what they wanted. I never once though of an explosion when hearing a sonic boom...I knew a sonic boom when I heard one.

Oh, and I know that the A-7 is listed as a subsonic jet....but I am convinced after years of seeing the A-7 flying the skies as I was growing up, and after years of hearing sonic booms when the only jets I have seen all day were A-7s....that they can go super sonic when pushed to the limits.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
I don't get it...how can sonic booms be that "unknown"?...
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Simple. I grew up in Augusta Maine. The number of sonic booms I heard from age 0 to 22 was exactly zero. Plus it isn't that they are "unknown", it's that they are COOL!! And it's fun to experience them. Please shoot me if I ever start thinking that sonic booms are boring and not worth looking up for!
 
I too think that sonic booms are cool...bring them ON! But for a city to freak out and for people to go running out of their houses because of a couple sonic booms....surely there are people in Seattle who have heard sonic booms before.

Well, I know what it is...but since me saying what caused all this MAYHEM and PANIC would open up a whole can of POLITICAL BS, I'll stay mute on the subject....but I will say this.....I want my OLD AMERICA back!!!!!!

OBIO
 
We have a TFR for VP Biden tomorrow (attending the funeral of Ted Stevens). I am hoping to get a cross country flight in, but I will be extra careful to return before my home base is closed.

In any case we are always careful to avoid fighter escorts. Drifting in a cross wind can be enough to send us into Elmendorf's air space. It is nice to see them flying nearby, but they never do supersonic over town.
 
booms

limjack said:
Had a interesting thing happen at work today. I was checking inventory when I heard a Huge explosion of some sort and boy did it shake our building. I tried to reason it out in my head to what it might be and then went ahead with my business when a second blow the same as the first sounded off. Folks were then running out of doors wondering what the heck was that and is it safe to be in this building. Turned out it was a couple fighters that were scrambled from PDX to engage and aircraft that had invaded the Presidents air space here in Seattle. I think that was my first and second sonic boom I have ever heard. We were releived to find out the source about 30 min. after it happend. Some of the folks thought we were being bombed. Scary stuff, but fun once you know what it was. Thought I would share the excitement.
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Jim
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I lve in Wenatchee and in the 60s we had them all the time here no less than 40 a day !
sky pilot
 
OBIO said:
I too think that sonic booms are cool...bring them ON! But for a city to freak out and for people to go running out of their houses because of a couple sonic booms....surely there are people in Seattle who have heard sonic booms before.

Well, I know what it is...but since me saying what caused all this MAYHEM and PANIC would open up a whole can of POLITICAL BS, I'll stay mute on the subject....but I will say this.....I want my OLD AMERICA back!!!!!!

OBIO
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ME TOO !
I MISS IT A LOT,
sky pilot:jump:
 
I can still remember my first sonic ... I still believe to this day that it was the x-15 as that was the only aircraft available at the time, (I think,) that could go that fast. I was a wee lad of 10 ... so the era was 1965 or so.

Since then, I've experienced several other sonics and recently have been honored to have been "soniced" by the double boom of the space shuttle.

:salute:
 
When I was flying, we had to record every supersonic flight over land. You had to list the coordinates where it started and ended.

I bet the two pilots who scrambled got one heck of a kick going supersonic over the city. It is like breaking a speeding law and getting away with it to them. Brings the kid out in you.
 
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