you know you are OLD , when

[hipshot]

NONE of your kids, have ever heard a jet , break the sound barrier!

just jt

[pegscraper]

I can remember hearing a couple sonic booms in town, but I was very young.

 

A few years ago when my brother was in the Navy, I visited him on a "family day" where they took us out on a ship for a day long cruise. One of the events was an airshow, and they did several sonic booms right beside the ship with the plane just barely over the water. You could feel your bones rattle inside your skin.

[Venturous Randy]

There was a really neat video floating around a while back of an F-14 passing a ship as there was a sonic boom and the vapors formed as it did it. It was neat.

RandyA

[hipshot]

as i understand it , randy.

it is not illegal to break the sound barrier, "over international waters", but, it is illegal to break the sound barrier, over the "continental ", united states.

i don't know when the law was enacted, but it has been a long time!

 

just jt

[hipshot]

do a goolge, on sonic boom pictures!

just jt

[Snarley Bill]

you know your old when you feel like me every time you stand up.lol

[hipshot]

you know your old when you feel like me every time you stand up.lol

 

i hear ya , bill. i sound like a box of cereal, myself!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

snap! crackle, pop!(rice crispies)

lol

just jt

[buddy]

I remember those sonic booms here in Okla. back in the early 70's I was just a kid. I would here them every so often when I was outside riding the horse or jumping with the dirt bike.

 

Plus in 2001 we had low flying jets come over our farm at tree top level you could not here them until it was too late and would scare the @#&%)(@#$* out of us and all of our cows & horses. There for a while they would be like clock work twice a week come over our place got to a point they would wave back at us. Guess they were getting ready for Iraq.

 

buddy

[Bigfoot]

NONE of your kids, have ever heard a jet , break the sound barrier!

just jt

 

 

I used to play on the beach in Jacksonville, Fla. and quite often we'd hear the sonic boom. Quite intimidating when you first hear them.