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Sonic Boom heard all over Yorkshire!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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20 mins ago I experienced what sounded like two explosions and which shook the house... i was absolutely terrified...its being reported locally as typhoon jets from RAF Coningsby breaking the sound barrier!
Who else heard this? |
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A sonic boom has been heard over various parts of the region after a typhoon jet flew over Leeds-Bradford airport.
A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion.
An unofficial twitter account which monitors activity at RAF Coningsby says it believes the bangs were caused by typhoon jets. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It was me. I farted 
Ahhh that explains the blue light in the sky! 
Yeah someone was holding a match behind me when i fluffed - afterburners kicking in "
Put some bacon on it... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love sonic bangs.
Best place if you wanna catch on is top of a small mountain in Snowdonia.
They do low level training through the valley and they actually fly below you.... Occasionally one of them will be naughty and gun it  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It was from Leicester...
It did happen at full time!
I heard it, and my FB friends on Harrogate, Leeds, Doncaster and Wakefield did too. Bloody loud sonic booms!"
Missed end of Marcella cos of it lol |
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By *igSuki81Man
over a year ago
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"It was me. I farted
Ahhh that explains the blue light in the sky!
Yeah someone was holding a match behind me when i fluffed - afterburners kicking in
Put some bacon on it..."
Who wants a bacon sarnie cooked on an open fire using natural gas |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
on the road to nowhere in particular |
"I love sonic bangs.
Best place if you wanna catch on is top of a small mountain in Snowdonia.
They do low level training through the valley and they actually fly below you.... Occasionally one of them will be naughty and gun it "
Did that on school field trips watching the fighters from RAF Valley |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I didn't hear it here in Rotherham. Damn! Nothing exciting ever happens around here  "
{Must resist urge to make comments abount banging, Howard, and his sexy socks} |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"A couple of Typhoons from RAF Coningsby apparently. Sent up to intercept an airliner that had gone off course."
Since when does the RAF do that? I would have thought the CAA would be able to tell them.
I think its rumour mill time, but what's almost certain is that it was two planes going bloody fast. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"yes herd it hear too Doncaster
Did it shake your house? My bedroom door actually opened!"
yes and everyone was out on street wondering what was happening |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I love sonic bangs.
Best place if you wanna catch on is top of a small mountain in Snowdonia.
They do low level training through the valley and they actually fly below you.... Occasionally one of them will be naughty and gun it
Did that on school field trips watching the fighters from RAF Valley "
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It's even more exciting when your in your 40s....I mean your just happy you ain't had a heart attack climbing up the Fokker  |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
on the road to nowhere in particular |
"I love sonic bangs.
Best place if you wanna catch on is top of a small mountain in Snowdonia.
They do low level training through the valley and they actually fly below you.... Occasionally one of them will be naughty and gun it
Did that on school field trips watching the fighters from RAF Valley .
It's even more exciting when your in your 40s....I mean your just happy you ain't had a heart attack climbing up the Fokker "
they used to say three hours to climb Snowden and two hours to come down. I once went up in two hours and came down in 45 minutes. I was 16 then |
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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago
Reading |
I was staying at Tattershall Lakes last year, which is just near RAF Conigsby . Late one evening just before midnight 2 jets took off. Being late at night I know sound travels more, but the whole area shook. I asked next day and was told planes were on intercept. Found later listed on Internet . It is a 24 hour operational base. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I love sonic bangs.
Best place if you wanna catch on is top of a small mountain in Snowdonia.
They do low level training through the valley and they actually fly below you.... Occasionally one of them will be naughty and gun it
Did that on school field trips watching the fighters from RAF Valley .
It's even more exciting when your in your 40s....I mean your just happy you ain't had a heart attack climbing up the Fokker they used to say three hours to climb Snowden and two hours to come down. I once went up in two hours and came down in 45 minutes. I was 16 then"
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I'm too busy admiring the fauna or the view these days.
I'll admit it's taking me longer every year, although last year I did crib goch on a "windy" day/evening....On several occasions I did utter. Wtf am I doing  |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
on the road to nowhere in particular |
"Happened in Northants about two weeks. Was two Typhoons heading out to do an intercept. Was very loud and sudden then too.
As opposed to the quiet and gradual sonic boom...  "
They need permission to break the sound barrier, it's not routine |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"Happened in Northants about two weeks. Was two Typhoons heading out to do an intercept. Was very loud and sudden then too.
As opposed to the quiet and gradual sonic boom...
They need permission to break the sound barrier, it's not routine"
The fact that two planes so far away shook my house, I'm not bloody surprised! |
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By *olgateMan
over a year ago
on the road to nowhere in particular |
"I love sonic bangs.
Best place if you wanna catch on is top of a small mountain in Snowdonia.
They do low level training through the valley and they actually fly below you.... Occasionally one of them will be naughty and gun it
Did that on school field trips watching the fighters from RAF Valley .
It's even more exciting when your in your 40s....I mean your just happy you ain't had a heart attack climbing up the Fokker they used to say three hours to climb Snowden and two hours to come down. I once went up in two hours and came down in 45 minutes. I was 16 then.
I'm too busy admiring the fauna or the view these days.
I'll admit it's taking me longer every year, although last year I did crib goch on a "windy" day/evening....On several occasions I did utter. Wtf am I doing "
when we climbed tiffin we got to the top and wondered wtf did they bring us up here for? |
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"Happened in Northants about two weeks. Was two Typhoons heading out to do an intercept. Was very loud and sudden then too.
As opposed to the quiet and gradual sonic boom...
They need permission to break the sound barrier, it's not routine"
But when they have permission, do they inform the public?
Also I would imagine that they have dispensation to break it without notification in a defensive emergency...ie going up to intercept the Russians... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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apparently a air france flight from paris to Newcastle had strayed of course and the 2 typhoons wer scrambled from RAF conisingby to intercept it which they did and escorted it into Newcastle safely |
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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago
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As I posted earlier. The pilots male / female, when scrambled to take off, will have no idea what they are heading for etc. Planes are fully armed. I would think breaking sound barrier is last thing on their minds at that time. But to get to incursion area as quick as possible. |
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Since when does the RAF do that?"
Since 911,
It happens quite a bit. I feel sorry for the RAF pilots because all the way to the intercept they have to think that they *may* be going to blow a couple of hundred innocent people out of the sky 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I seen a post on Facebook, they was sent to intercept a private plane that was not responding to atc.
The plane was escorted to a nearby airfield and the typhoons returned to base. |
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"I seen a post on Facebook, they was sent to intercept a private plane that was not responding to atc.
The plane was escorted to a nearby airfield and the typhoons returned to base. "
Also said on breakfast news this morning. Good to know our security is working! |
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