[SOC] Concorde

[Paul Bartlett]

You love them or you hate them. I spent a year in Germany in 1975/6 near
Saarbruecken. This is quite near Ramstein, a US AFB.

We'd regularly hear the double thump of an F something passing nearby.The
almost univseral reaction was to run outside and see what it was.

I *like* aeroplanes.

Paul :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Yokanovich" <k3ny@cablespeed.com>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Concorde


> Hi Chris!
>
> > Well, sonic booms generated in the thin air at 55000 feet hardly
> make
> > more than a small dull double 'thump' by the time they reach the
> ground.
> > Most of the pressure pulse dissipates as it tries (and largely
> fails) to
> > affect the progressively-denser air below.
>
> I am all in favor of the SST taking off and climbing straight up to
> FL 55 to begin its cross-country journey ;-)   As for the F15s et
> al, life on an aircraft carrier has its downside. I lived in the
> Yorkshire Dales for a few years in the 80's and was often ducking
> for cover as the A10s, Tornados, and Jaguars streaked up and down my
> local dale.
>
> Nick K3NY
> Arnold, MD
>
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