Sonic boom over Peterborough?

[Mattt]

fk me that was loud!

I assume someone's going to be in trouble?

[atyler]

Must have been, sounded like something heavy fell from a shelf upstairs.

My wife said she heard it from Godmanchester!

[PaulG40]

Probably a Typhoon QRF launch.

[atyler]

Probably, yes. There is already an article on Peterborough Telegraph site. People had been phoning the police apparently...

[WinstonWolf]

BOOM

[GregK2]

I heard this in a carpark, felt like it wobbled my car (stationary)

Pilot could be in trouble if this is anything to go by: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579977/Da...

I thought it was cool though.

[onyx39]

GregK2 said:

I heard this in a carpark, felt like it wobbled my car (stationary)

Pilot could be in trouble if this is anything to go by: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579977/Da...

I thought it was cool though.

"The noise came out of nowhere and made me drop my beef!"

[AlexIT]

I recall that when I was a child (a handful of years ago ) we were living on Lake Garda, quite close to Ghedi Air Force Base in northern Italy which was home of the Italian 6th Wing operating the F-104 and Tornados.

As we were on a slightly elevated position it happened quite often to see the planes flying over the lake straight from the side (and sometimes even from the above...).
It seems that back then regulations were far less tight and sonic bangs were not unusual.

I think it is one of those sounds that really gets into your body, absolutely fantastic!

[Stuck In A Lift]

Caused by the pair of QRA Typhoons from Coningsby.

[Monty Zoomer]

atyler said:

People had been phoning the police apparently...

If the Police were too deaf to have heard it for themselves, how would they be able to hear a person on a telephone?

[slartibartfast]

I was on the phone to my work who are based at Peterborough a minute after it'd happened so there was quite a commotion going on.
Last time I heard one I was in Newquay and it was Concord slowing down for the Irish channel about 20 years ago...lovely double boom.

Boston Standard

http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/local/link-be...

[Stuck In A Lift]

The first comment on the article made my teeth itch. Who do the idiots think they are?

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/SONIC-BOOM-Ho...

[Eric Mc]

slartibartfast said:

Last time I heard one I was in Newquay and it was Concord .

Concorde

[slartibartfast]

Eric Mc said:

slartibartfast said:

Last time I heard one I was in Newquay and it was Concord .

Concorde

and that too

[slartibartfast]

The Italians are at Conningsby at present and I bet it was one of those being a little cheeky

http://www.horncastlenews.co.uk/news/local/update-...

[atyler]

“The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to go supersonic over land for operational reasons"

That must be what every fast jet pilot lives to hear!

[slartibartfast]

atyler said:

“The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to go supersonic over land for operational reasons"

That must be what every fast jet pilot lives to hear!

I've just been told they were on a QRA as a civil aircraft had radio loss

[OllieC]

[Squiggs]

Just heard from a friend in Cornwall who heard a 'boom' ??????
Are the Aliens coming?

[crazy about cars]