Anyone hear the bang in Oxfordshire

[JABB]

Apparently, even the MOD are looking into the bang, heard from Bath to Coventry.

[miniman]

Typhoon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328

[RizzoTheRat]

A typhoon in a hurry apparently

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328

[essexplumber]

Would a sonic boom be heard that clearly over such a large area?

[P5Nij]

Heard it here in Rugby, felt it too!

[Nuclearsquash]

Scared the bejesus out of me in Swindon.

[RizzoTheRat]

essexplumber said:

Would a sonic boom be heard that clearly over such a large area?

It would be heard under the path of the aircraft, it's a continuous moving wave, like the wake from a boat, rather than a single point.

Interestingly before the MoD said it was a Typhoon the Geological survey had located the epicenter, which seems a little strange for a sonic boom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7692225.stm

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Thursday 12th April 20:38

[Aizle]

That's what they want you to think.

Dons tin foil hat. I think it was this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)

[Topbuzz]

Heard it here in Malmesbury. Loud enough for us to wonder what it was.

[SmoothCriminal]

RizzoTheRat said:

Interestingly before the MoD said it was a Typhoon the Geological survey had located the epicenter, which seems a little strange for a sonic boom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7692225.stm

I know people like conspiracy theories but time travel really?

[Aizle]

Why would two typhoons scramble to a report from a civilian helicopter?

[Aizle]

SmoothCriminal said:

RizzoTheRat said:

Interestingly before the MoD said it was a Typhoon the Geological survey had located the epicenter, which seems a little strange for a sonic boom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7692225.stm

I know people like conspiracy theories but time travel really?

" Page last updated at 07:27 GMT, Monday, 27 October 2008"

[RizzoTheRat]

D'Oh, well spotted. Number 6 on the BBC news websites "most popular" links, I didn't notice the date

[LukeBird]

Aizle said:

Why would two typhoons scramble to a report from a civilian helicopter?

Apparently he was transmitting on the wrong frequency.

I'd be interested to hear if that were really the case.

[Jackleman]

Sonic Booms can travel a long way, we used to hear the Concord boom every night down here in Sussex and I believe this was somewhere over the approaches to the English Channel!

[strudel]

Nuclearsquash said:

Scared the bejesus out of me in Swindon.

So that's why we though someone had ram raided the building!

[supertouring]

Jackleman said:

Sonic Booms can travel a long way, we used to hear the Concord boom every night down here in Sussex and I believe this was somewhere over the approaches to the English Channel!

Where I grew up in South Wales we used to hear Concorde around 9pm each night as it hit the sound barrier heading out to America.

[jmorgan]

LukeBird said:

Aizle said:

Why would two typhoons scramble to a report from a civilian helicopter?

Apparently he was transmitting on the wrong frequency.

I'd be interested to hear if that were really the case.

Depends where the helicopter was maybe?

[ShayneJ]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328


Apparently!

[Aizle]

ShayneJ said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17697328


Apparently!

Thanks for that. I hadn't noticed it in posts 2 and 3 of the thread......