Deere-est Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 If you heard a bit of a boom last night.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328 And what James May thinks about the jet... :D Quote
Leakeyvale Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 I have a large (A3 size) and superb photo of the Eurofighter with the Bugatti Veyron taken at the beginning of the race that took place several years ago. NOT an official photo but one taken by a pilot on the base before the order went out banning photography. Quote
Deere-est Posted April 13, 2012 Author Posted April 13, 2012 Phenomenal aircraft, would have liked to have heard it yesterday. Quote
CMB Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 At the Fairford Air Tattoo I remember it being it being extremely loud, even without the afterburners. Quote
justy 46 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 When the Concorde was flying years ago ,I could hear it every evening at around 5.15 breaking the sound barrier off the coast of Kinsale ,Co Cork on route to JFK New york from Heathrow. What a yoke. For an aircraft of that size to cruise at Mach 2 for nearly 3 hours solid. Even the Typhoon, F16 or Mirage 2000 can just about hit Mach 2 & they are little nibble fighter jets. Quote
WillTEF20 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 The Typhoon often flies over our farm as our land borders kemble air field. Where they have a air show every year!! Very load indead! Quote
justy 46 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Looooove airshows. They dont happen to often in Ireland tough. Quote
WillTEF20 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Looooove airshows. They dont happen to often in Ireland tough. They're alright apart from he planes upset the cattle!! Quote
justy 46 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 They're alright apart from he planes upset the cattle!! Yeah ,youl have that i guess. Its like the Tarmac Rally's over here. The loud cars also drive cattle mad from time to time. Quote
Tractorman810 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Used to be a regular occourance round Suffolk when I was younger , the old lightenings , then tornados and of course the yankie f15. Eagles , All on cold war scramble duties , and as mentioned concord was a regular noise even as far down as Plymouth , don't see the typhons this way that often now but still see the tornados and hawks a lot, don't see the yanks at all now , guess they are all busy Quote
Guest Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 We get the typhoons come over us here in east yorks a bit , the RAF F16s used to do dummy runs down river towards powerstations but not seen the newer typhoons dothat but you can hear them as they come over Quote
justy 46 Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 We get the typhoons come over us here in east yorks a bit , the RAF F16s used to do dummy runs down river towards powerstations but not seen the newer typhoons dothat but you can hear them as they come over I dont think the RAF have F-16s. Unless your mistaking them with the Hawk trainers. The Beligans & the Dutch have F-16s alright. Quote
Deere-est Posted April 13, 2012 Author Posted April 13, 2012 Did anyone on here hear it yesterday then? It was all over Facebook yesterday. A year or two back I had a tacho break at the end of Fairford runway the Tuesday after the show, watched numerous planes leave but it was the Typhoon and the Tornado that ripped the sky to pieces, the noise was incredible. I miss Boscombe Down Airshow, we always went to that one. Quote
Leakeyvale Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 I thought I heard thunder and it could have been the sonic boom. Before Concorde went into service they used to perform test flights over the sea at supersonic The soundwave, however, reached parts of Cornwall at times. I was out riding on the cliffs at Tintagel with a load of holiday makers enjoying some horse-riding. We had just closed the gate from the cliff gallop and were out in a dead-end lane as the boom struck. The stable owner and myself were, fortunately, blocking the open end of the lane and prevented 12 panicked horses with novice riders from bolting and even we had a job! I hate to think what would have happened if we had been out on the cliffs! A swift, and rather terse, telephone call resulted in the tests being scheduled for a specific time each day and announcements made on the radio so we were able to ensure we were not out during the flights. Quote
Tractorman810 Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 concorde was a regular 9pm boom down here sue, could pretty much set your clock by it, as she came out somewhere over the bristol channel way, would rattle the old ally windows in the pusser house we lived in at the time Quote
Leakeyvale Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 I do believe you are correct. It made it possible for us to schedule the rides once we knew the time it would happen. Quote
Jdeere6910 Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 We get the typhoons come over us here in east yorks a bit , the RAF F16s used to do dummy runs down river towards powerstations but not seen the newer typhoons dothat but you can hear them as they come over When we used to have a silage tower up we used to get the exact same thing, Ive seen tornado's go over at what cant have been more than 200 ft. It was the tallest thing around us apart from pylons though. Especially as its flat around the howden area Quote
jdc Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 The real reason. It must be true - it's the Sun. ;D http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4256091/Sonic-boom-as-jets-investigate-UFO.html Quote
Tractorman810 Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 The real reason. It must be true - it's the Sun. ;D http://www.thesun.co...tigate-UFO.html socked shapped?? mmm looks much more ock shaped to me :laugh: :laugh: trust the sun to belive that story Quote
Jdeere6910 Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Anyone read the article? I think under the picture captioned "Riddle ... 'sock-shaped UFO'" they may have spelt sock wrong Reminds me of the time I worried a bloke on an old motorbike when tipping muck. And its not to do with the misspelling of sock The back door of the trailer banged when it came down, and the bloke thought his bike was about to blow up. Then he saw what it was and looked a bit relieved Quote
chris.watson Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 So... Nobody heard it then? : yes we heard it in this part of essex, and yes it was loud. it wasnt until the local news the next night that confirmed it was a sonic boom from a fighter. i live in a 450 year old thatched cottage and the lights did flicker a bit, but at the time we were having a bit of a hail storm and i thought we might of heard very,very loud thunder. Quote
Deere-est Posted April 14, 2012 Author Posted April 14, 2012 At last! A memeber who heard it! Had you heard it before? Quote
chris.watson Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 At last! A memeber who heard it! Had you heard it before? no never heard anything that loud around here before, but we did hear the bang when the buncefield fuel depot blew up a while back. we thought that was thunder too. :laugh: Quote
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