Sonic Boom

Canenriot
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edited May 2016 in General Chat #1

Just heard from family up in Yorkshire , there has been a sonic  boon. Two RAF Typhoon jets fron Coningsbury have been scrambled to intercept some sort of security risk , thenk goodness we have the RAF '

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  • crispy
    crispy Forum Participant Posts: 2
    edited May 2016 #2

    Apparently they have escorted a civvy airplane to Newcastle airport .

  • Canenriot
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    edited May 2016 #3

    Oh so not the Russians in our air space , the police have now released a statement saying no cause for concern about the planes. 

  • David and Mary
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    edited May 2016 #4

    It was an Air France flight that was not responding to radio contact. 

    We ended up out in the street checking our roof was OK , as were many of the neighbours. Perhaps we should have got a street party going..

  • Cornersteady
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    edited May 2016 #5

    Just heard from family up in Yorkshire , there has been a sonic  boon. Two RAF Typhoon jets fron Coningsbury have been scrambled to intercept some sort of security risk ,
    thenk goodness we have the RAF '

    + 1 there, it is not only the pilots but the infrastructure that tracks 'un responsive' aircraft, a good video of how it all works is

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe46SmN_tjo

    (sorry get get the link active so just cut and paste if you want to see it)

  • IanH
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    edited May 2016 #6

    And there was me thinking it was Triky Auto setting off in his Concord Smile

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2016 #7

    France's way of trying to get UK taxpayers to cough up even more for securitySurprised

    Sonic booms used to happen very often when I used to work offshore in the southern north sea in the 1970/80's

  • Cornersteady
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    edited May 2016 #8

    I went supersonic in the back seat of a Phantom in about 1981 over the north sea, so it might have been meSmile

  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2016 #9

    I stood on the deck, not burning, and thought to myself, theres Corners in a Phantom.  Always admired that plane

  • DEBSC
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    edited May 2016 #10

    We live very near the coast and when concorde was flying it was supposed to slow down before it got to the land. Sometimes it didn't and we got many sonic booms. Miss it really.

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