Not sure what it was, but it was like a Vulcan bomber on reheat, that deep.
Thunderously deep boom over Hartley Wintney. Not thunder.
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3 responses to “Thunderously deep boom over Hartley Wintney. Not thunder.”
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One two weeks ago was Typhoons being scrambled.
Variously reported as an equipment failure or in response to an incorrect distress signal from a helicopter.
Who knows, they sometimes get a bit tetchy about telling the whole truth if it is a military aircraft entering UK airspace without permission from less desirable countries in Eastern Europe (which these days is probably only Russia).
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RAF practicing scramble-to-intercept procedures for the Olympics, I’ll bet. It was about this long before Gulf War I that I remember seeing A10s out of RAF Valley criscrossing the M5, practicing getting weapon lock.
Also saw the story about the Typhoons and the helicopter the other week; that was somewhere over the Midlands I gather, although the sonic boom was picked up for over a 100-mile radius.
The stories about the Russians “knocking on the door” again (usually sending a couple of Backfires over to say hello) date from a couple of years ago; it doesn’t mean it isn’t still going on, just that it’s no longer newsworthy. Even then, I wouldn’t expect our boys to have to go supersonic in order to give them a “not today, thank you”.
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There was a planned RAF Typhoon landing at Northalth this weekend you could have heared that.
Also XH558 display season has started but I don’t think she was due down this way this weekend
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