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Subject: Re: [OM] OT Low Flying, was an OM weekend
From: "Donald MacDonald" <donald.macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:14:53 +0100
Gary Edwards wrote:

<snip>
If that Tomcat had really been
supersonic, I assure you, at that proximity the sonic boom would have been
an event you would never forget. And, as Chris Barker can tell you,
exceeding Mach 1 low and with witnesses is a good way for that pilot to
newer have that opportunity again.
<snip>

I remember back in 1968 (!) being on holiday on the Fife coast, a Lightning
going supersonic over Anstruther at five or six hundred feet. If I remember
correctly, at that time there was a 'policy' of testing public reaction to
sonic booms.

I was really into it at the time, knew everything about the aircraft and all
the geek stuff. When I saw the Lightning lazily fly out to sea (did
Lightnings ever 'lazily fly'?), turn and accelerate inland, I knew what was
happening. It was a hell of a bang. I'm sure the cows in the field next to
me stopped giving milk for a month...

A couple of years later we (Air Cadets) were at Prestwick Air Show, standing
at the big observation windows watching something or other, when the whole
pane shook and reverberated. Concorde doing speed trials down the west
coast...

Donald.

Donald Neil MacDonald, BA DipLIS
www.bigmac1st.freeserve.co.uk


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