F35 goes supersonic over Tinker AFB

[Farmer17]

I didn't think planes were allowed to break the speed of sound over US airspace but it seems like a nice way to say thanks.

F-35s perform salute to maintenance crews at Tinker Air Force Base | KFOR.com Oklahoma City

 

[AzShooter]

When I was in the Air Force part of my job in public relations was to explain when a pilot went supersonic. They are not supposed to do it over populated areas.

One poor lady had her house damaged because a number of SR 71s broke the sound barrier over her place. Found out they were on final approach to their base in Ca. Her house is in Arizona. The Air Force ended up paying for all the damage.

 

[LVSteve]

When I was in the Air Force part of my job in public relations was to explain when a pilot went supersonic. They are not supposed to do it over populated areas.

One poor lady had her house damaged because a number of SR 71s broke the sound barrier over her place. Found out they were on final approach to their base in Ca. Her house is in Arizona. The Air Force ended up paying for all the damage.

I read somewhere that when the A-12 operated out of Area 51 it used to climb, top off from a tanker, then go into a shallow dive to get through the sound barrier. Apparently, this dive was almost always aimed at the town of Susanville in California, and the residents were not impressed.

 

[LVSteve]

I didn't think planes were allowed to break the speed of sound over US airspace but it seems like a nice way to say thanks.

F-35s perform salute to maintenance crews at Tinker Air Force Base | KFOR.com Oklahoma City

I would look at that webpage except it wants to run enough scripts to choke a Cray supercomputer. Nope, not on my box.

 

[Onomea]

I would look at that webpage except it wants to run enough scripts to choke a Cray supercomputer. Nope, not on my box.

Smooth as a STP on Formica on an iPad... One click and off and runnin'...

Pretty cool plane. Pretty good price, too, all things considered.

 

[grover99]

When I was a kid in Texas sonic booms were common and I thought they were neat. Never knew of any damage done by one. This was in the early 50s

 

[S-W4EVER]

I read somewhere that when the A-12 operated out of Area 51 it used to climb, top off from a tanker, then go into a shallow dive to get through the sound barrier...

You mean those weren't UFO's?

 

[BC38]

When I was a kid in St. Louis in the 1960's you'd hear a few sonic booms every week.
McDonald Douglas was based in St. Louis and deep into production of supersonic jet fighters at the time. My dad worked on the F4 Phantoms and they were capable of over mach 2.

 

[krsmith58]

awesome, just awesome. thanks for sharing krs/kenny

 

[S-W4EVER]

I remember hearing sonic booms when I was a young Navy Brat in San Diego in the late 1950's.

 

[DUSTYDOGDAN]

I grew up in rural Idaho near the INL and back in the 1970's we would hear sonic booms weekly. It was great and a little scary because you didn't hear the aircraft at all until the boom.

 

[LVSteve]

Smooth as a STP on Formica on an iPad... One click and off and runnin'...

Oh, I'm sure my computer would run the page just fine...if I let it run the way it is configured. Thing is I have a philosophical issue (read rabid hatred) with accessing webpages that appear to be written and require access to/by about 20 different domains.

If I am dealing with a site over the web I expect to deal with that site and no one else. The reality is that webpage writers farm out certain functions to other domains, and once I figure out what is going on, that's OK, and the minimum stuff for what I want to do is permitted. Even so, there are things attached to this site that I do no allow, and it denies my certain minor functionalities. Boo-hoo. What I refuse to do is connect to YourLocalNews.com, cheapguns.net or whatever and blithely accept every cookie and script from all and sundry, probably starting with Google and Facebook and working down to the IT department of the FSB. Not. On. My Watch.

 

[Onomea]

Well, Steve, as they say, "ignorance is bliss." (That'd be me, of course, not you.)

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I don't recall being in the area when an aircraft went supersonic.

About 20 years ago I was driving near an Air Force practice bombing range when a half-dozen bombers made a low-level approach right over me, probably not more than 100 feet above ground level. Quite impressive! Peaceful quiet morning one minute, then a thundering aluminum cloud passing overhead at who-knows-how-fast! A shadow actually passed directly over my car.

In Vietnam we had close air support provided by USAF, Navy, and Marine aircraft. When we use the word "close" it can mean smelling the JP-4 exhaust, sometimes feeling the heat, and always a lot of noise. I'm pretty sure one Marine pilot went home with vegetation stuck to his plane.

 

[S42N8]

When I was in the Air Force part of my job in public relations was to explain when a pilot went supersonic. They are not supposed to do it over populated areas.

One poor lady had her house damaged because a number of SR 71s broke the sound barrier over her place. Found out they were on final approach to their base in Ca. Her house is in Arizona. The Air Force ended up paying for all the damage.

+1. The boys at Beale created no end of work for us.

 

[Skeptic 9c]

WOW! They actually got one of those junkers in the sky!
Geoff
Who notes the USAF no longer publishes critical information, like numbers available for flight.

 

[OLDSTER]

My firm spent two years, on and off, working on hangars at Tinker AFB in the late '90s.. We really enjoyed being there since every day was an air show. I believe I saw every aircraft of every type.

 

[Sgt911]

The pilot of the F35
Behind the helmet of the F-35A Demonstration Team's newest pilot > U.S. Air Force > Article Display

 

[Farmer17]

My firm spent two years, on and off, working on hangars at Tinker AFB in the late '90s.. We really enjoyed being there since every day was an air show. I believe I saw every aircraft of every type.

I worked at Tinker for two years and spent a lot of time in the hangers and on the tarmac. I loved being around the aircraft and saw almost everything that flys there but I never saw a B2 stealth bomber. They had a big hanger there just for the B-2 but it was heavily guarded I never had clearance to go in.

 

[handejector]

I want one!