PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Sound Barrier Over London By A Lightning
View Single Post
Old 19th Dec 2004, 12:08
  #7 (permalink)  
Peter Barron
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Slough
Posts: 192
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
BEagle.

What aircraft were you flying when you went supersonic.

Am I right in thinking that the Lightning tests over London were the last offically permitted breaking of the sound barried over UK Soil.

One things for sure, you don't get anything like it at airshows today, display pilots don't even know what a fast pass is, they reel about the sky and that's about it.
Even back in the 70s and 80s when the sound barrier was not allowed to be broken you used to get fighters at airshows doing a low fast pass very near the speed of sound, so fast that you could not hear them coming, and you did not hear them until they had gone past, today there is nothing like that.

The glory days of airshows have gone forever, never to be replaced.

Peter.
Peter Barron is offline