[SOC] Concorde

[Paul Bartlett]

Hi Nick,

I'm one of those sad people who actually *like* this! We live in a part of
England where Herky birds and other military aircraft frequently whizz
across our skies sub 3000 ft.

A very good friend of mine lives in deepest West Wales where there are
frequent low level excercises. Farmers local to him have been known to
freeze 'fallen stock' and to get them out when there's a low level pass and
subsequently claim compensation.

He wrote a supportive letter to the commander of the local airbase and now
gets a routine wing-waggle as the jets travel up his valley.

Slightly related anecdote. Possibly apocryphal.

A traffic policeman in Norfolk (East coast of England) pointed a radar gun
at a car he suspected travelling too fast and a RAF fighter over the North
Sea doing a  routine intercept interpreted the received signal as a threat.
Plod was nearly toast.

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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