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Celerity

(46,235 posts) Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:12 PM Jan 2021

Sonic boom after RAF Typhoon jets scrambled to intercept private plane

https://news.sky.com/story/sonic-boom-after-raf-jets-sent-to-intercept-private-plane-12185918

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Sonic boom after RAF Typhoon jets scrambled to intercept private plane (Original Post) Celerity Jan 2021 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2021 #1

Jet fighters smashing through the sound barrier occurred regularly in my youth Cirque du So-What Jan 2021 #2

Same here. luvs2sing Jan 2021 #3

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Cirque du So-What

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2. Jet fighters smashing through the sound barrier occurred regularly in my youth

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Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:20 PM

Jan 2021

It never failed to scare the snot out of me.

luvs2sing

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3. Same here.

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Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:25 PM

Jan 2021

I grew up in a semi-rural area about fifty miles from an Air Force base. I swear they used to fly those jets out to our area to practice breaking the sound barrier. We got used to it after a while, and it was weird when they stopped.

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