Who remembers in the 60's and early 70's hearing....

[Dixie]

I went to Middle & my High School on a USAF base. Classes would constantly, if momentarily, be interrupted by the sound of jets taking off, but I can't say I've ever heard a sonic boom. It was my understanding where pilots could go supersonic was regulated.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by Dixie

I went to Middle & my High School on a USAF base. Classes would constantly, if momentarily, be interrupted by the sound of jets taking off, but I can't say I've ever heard a sonic boom. It was my understanding where pilots could go supersonic was regulated.

The regulations started in 1973.

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[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Heard them lots and lots. Dayton was right down the street from Toledo. Dayton was right down the street from you.

Probably heard the same ones.

I remember looking up in our driveway seeing them when shooting hoops. Usually just one hauling the mail.

Delphos is in the flight path... I remember as a kid hearing them.

[ramonesfreak]

Used to hear them a few times every summer in the 70s early 80s over Lake Ontario

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I can't remember ever seeing the jets...when hearing the 'Boom' they were long gone.

I could see the aircraft. It seemed very high so it took a minute to fly completely out of sight and on a clear day I could see nothing else around.

I heard them way more than seeing them. Maybe two or three times observed.

I can't confirm Wright Patterson AFB origin but seems to make sense to me.

[David]

I vaguely remember going to an airshow at Ellington Airforce base south of Houston in the mid-70's when I was a kid and seeing an F-101 Voodoo breaking the sound barrier a few hundred feet off the ground right in front of us. If that didn't get a bunch of kids to decide to be pilots, I don't know what would.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, Oklahoma City had some!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

OKC was an experiment of sonic booms.

My wife grew up in Enid, OK. Vance AFB was and still is a pilot training base. On a clear day, the sounds of jets overhead is almost constant. In he speech class they just allowed a pause for the noise of the jets to subside.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by stevej37

The regulations started in 1973.
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Thanks. It was '71 to '75. Im curious if hearing the booms was regional? It seem sound would travel better in the flatter Midwest. I lived east coast and don't think I've ever heard a sonic boom.

[wdfifteen]

I don't remember it at all. That may have something to do with the fact that I lived most of my early life within 20 miles of Wright Patterson AFB. Any military aircraft around here was either departing or arriving at WPAFB and not flying at cruising speeds.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Heard them lots and lots. Dayton was right down the street from Toledo. Dayton was right down the street from you.

Probably heard the same ones.

WPAFB was always a bomber, research, and logistics base. There were seldom supersonic aircraft at the base, some may have shown up now and then of ferrying missions or for some research project or another, and WPAFB was a parking lot for aircraft evacuating hurricanes in the Southeast.
We were a stopover for F-15 rocket shooters, but there weren't many of those.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Our childhood home was mid-Michigan and I was told most of the sonic booms were out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base near Detroit.

Someone here might know if that is correct.

Yes. That is correct.

One of the major factors in banning booms was the outrage expressed by metro Detroit when windows got shattered. Even after the ban, the complaints were focused on low-flying sub-sonic jets scaring the carp out of people in the thumb.

One old lady nearly broke her arm when one of ‘em passed over and she reflexively hit the deck while working in her garden. They flew LOW over the vast farmlands of the Saginaw valley. That old lady was my mom.

[stevej37]

^^^ I could see that easily happening. No warning of the BOOM and then the normal jet sound after. (which at that point didn't help)

I hope they get that figured out so that hyper-sonic travel can come back sometime.

[HobieMarty]

Growing up around Eglin AFB, sonic booms were a common thing.

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[DRONE]

Stevej37
There is a supersonic corridor that still exists It shares airspace with Edwards and China Lake, which are adjacent to Mojave. Today, Mojave allows companies like Boom to conduct high-speed flight testing in a controlled, approved airspace while coordinating with air traffic control and military authorities.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by DRONE

Stevej37
There is a supersonic corridor that still exists It shares airspace with Edwards and China Lake, which are adjacent to Mojave. Today, Mojave allows companies like Boom to conduct high-speed flight testing in a controlled, approved airspace while coordinating with air traffic control and military authorities.

That's good to hear...I read about Boom a couple times a while back.
I'd love to be able to take a flight on one...I was too poor for a Concorde ticket. Although towards the end the ticket prices were getting near affordable.

[GH85Carrera]

We lived in Hawaii in the 1960s. Sonic booms were not uncommon. Also we would hear the booms of the navy bombing one of the uninhabited islands, Kahoolawe. They bombed it from the air, and ships. Lots of thunderous booms on a clear day.

It will be a real challenge to ever clear the island of unexploded ordnance.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

Growing up around Eglin AFB, sonic booms were a common thing.

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My colleague, friend and mentor was a fuze-ologist (civilian, PhD Physics, loves explosives) at Eglin in the lead up to and during the first Iraq business in the early '90s.

He said that shock waves were the sound of freedom. Oh, they're cool, too...

I personally have heard lots of HE-driven shock waves, but never a sonic boom. I really, really, want to experience one!

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

My colleague, friend and mentor was a fuze-ologist (civilian, PhD Physics, loves explosives) at Eglin in the lead up to and during the first Iraq business in the early '90s.



He said that shock waves were the sound of freedom. Oh, they're cool, too...



I personally have heard lots of HE-driven shock waves, but never a sonic boom. I really, really, want to experience one!

They definitely would shake the house and rattle the windows.

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[450knotOffice]

I'd spend some summers in rural Germany in the early to mid 70's and would occasionally hear the sonic booms from the Luftwaffe F104's, which were usually skimming just over the hilltops, and the F4 Phantoms, which always seemed to be up high.

[Tobra]

Sonic booms, Aerojet testing rocket engines

There was a drag strip on the other side of the river and I could hear that when they ran the big boys