Coventry bang/shock wave

nuttyprot said:
The aircraft were on their way to a small civilian helicopter that was emitting an emergency signal. Such a signal could indicate the aircraft had been hijacked or had ‘gone rogue’.
One of Royal Airforce Typhoon’s emitted a sonic boom that shook houses in Coventry, Rugby and Leamington.
The MoD response was standard procedure officials say, but the emergency signal from the helicopter turned out to be a false alarm.

http://www.itv.com/news/
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Interesting one that, could be a genuine false alarm or it could be someone testing out our emergency response plan and time.
 
Terry Organ, from Oakfield Park, Bath, said: "We just got back from doing some shopping and we got out the car and we heard this rather strange noise.

"I thought it was a commercial airliner and then I thought 'no way', it was like the aircraft I heard at Farnborough.

"We watched for a while and then we saw this aircraft appear and it was a Typhoon but it was flying amazingly slow and we thought it was going to come down.

"It was doing really tight slow circles and it suddenly put on full power and the noise was unbelievable, it was really blasting it out, and then it moved a bit further on and it did another slow turn.

"My impression was that it was struggling to stay up but then he put on full power again and you just couldn't hear anything.

"The noise was terrific, I imagine you could hear it for miles."
 
What actually happened is this.

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I would love to hear a sonicboom up close.

Used to love firing my rifle which broke the sound barrier but nothing like the sound of a jet breaking it :)
 
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SONIC BOOM!

I didn't hear anything last night, but my two colleagues at work said they both heard it (we all live in/around S-o-A)
 
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