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Old 16th Jan 2015, 20:37
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There was this incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eoTqLnL0WI

And there was the older Unpleasantness at White Sands in Dec. 64 when the FAA, which was trying to diversify into building the US SST, invited media to its specially built "boomtown" to experience B-58 and F-104 booms and be convinced that the dreaded boom was no big deal.

The planned tests went well, but then someone had the bright idea of bringing a -104 past for a photo op at 500 feet. Being a -104 it came in a tidge hot and...

“A heavy ruby-glass ashtray flew off a desk and sprayed shards over the floor. Outside, both panes of a mock-up storefront were smashed, a glass window in a trailer caved in, and 16 out of 90 panes in a small greenhouse were shattered.” (That was Time's report.)

38 psf will do that...
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