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Grins

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15. I doubt there was any sonic boom.

Reply to Xithras (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 08:27 PM

Feb 2013

Loud? Yes. Sonic? No.

How can you hit that speed while circling or escorting a Cessna? You can't.

And you are right. This thing happens often enough. All of it an overreaction to 911.

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Cessna plane escorted by F-16 fighter jets away from restricted airspace near President Obama (Fla.) [View all] alp227 Feb 2013 OP

I have not heard a sonic boom for many many years Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #1

I imagine the F16s went supersonic to intercept. Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #2

Here is a boom Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #3

My Dad was an Air Force snort Feb 2013 #10

We'd get them when the shuttles landed at Cape Kennedy csziggy Feb 2013 #16

That pilot is having a very bad day mokawanis Feb 2013 #4

Not usually. Xithras Feb 2013 #6

The no-fly zones set by the Secret Service are especially large Hissyspit Feb 2013 #7

I just read about an occurrence in 2002 mokawanis Feb 2013 #8

I doubt there was any sonic boom. Grins Feb 2013 #15

Temporarily Major Nikon Feb 2013 #11

Maybe it was James Imhoffe watoos Feb 2013 #5

ya think a coast guard helicopter with two f16s could contain the cessna? nt delrem Feb 2013 #9

Not if I was flying the Cessna. I'm that good. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2013 #14

I was just a few miles away visiting my grandson when this happened. DrewFlorida Feb 2013 #12

Years and years ago, Light House Feb 2013 #13