And now to drop a boom at low level, we have to be more than 30 miles
from the coast and flying on a divergent course (relative to the
coast). Last time I did this was in a Tornado on the conversion
course, just to prove that the jet can go supersonic.
Chris
At 12:14 +0100 17/9/02, Donald MacDonald wrote:
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.
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