RAF Hawk destroys house

[grandfer]

I know a few places where a low flyby like that would do £143,000 worth of improvements !

[E-Spy]

I must say, I read no further than the end of the link to 'mail_online', and stopped!

[cornish-stormrider]

I used to work with one of the eng's on crash and smach atabingdon (yes I know) and he went to that one - he showed me all sorts of interesting pics for when we had a real air force.....

some of the wimmin they had posing for shots were really fit too

[grandfer]

I don't like wimmin , it makes me 'air wet .

[Vitesse]

Be interesting to see how they arrived at the £3K figure. There must be a bit more to this case though - high court is pretty serious stuff.

[Synthetic]

The Hunter was my flight commander's handywork.

[AR1]

Slight thread creep but Tintagel was my first trip in a Helecopter as crash guard, 2 weeks out of training. I remember it well. Shocking scenes. Tried to get the WPC on duty to go out for a drink with me. An opportunist pull that failed.

Back on thread.. Odd things vibrations. I lived in quarters at Machrihanish, and one evening the house began to vibrate, I honestly thought it was an earthquake, but it turned out to be a Sea Stallion overhead at quite some altitude.

[BEagle]

I lived in quarters at Machrihanish, and one evening the house began to vibrate, I honestly thought it was an earthquake, but it turned out to be a Sea Stallion overhead at quite some altitude.

One hopes that said vibrations added a little spice to your evening?

I guess the CH-53 was working with Weird Wally's mysterious 'men in black' scuttling about on the Mull luring Chinooks like some latter-day Sirens....

[Checkboard]

Perhaps the M.O.D. lawyers should sit the court down to watch half an hour's TV:

The sonic boom from a supersonic fighter jet will break glass.

busted

Adam and Jamie teamed up with the Navy’s Blue Angels to test this myth. Adam first received some subsonic flight training in an FA-18; despite passing out and vomiting at various times, he enjoyed the experience. To operate at supersonic speeds, they had to go to a restricted zone due to FAA rules. At the test site, the MythBusters built a small cabin with a glass window in addition to parking a car and leaving a table with lots of glass objects on it. When a Blue Angel jet, with Adam aboard, flew by at supersonic speed and with 8,000 feet of altitude, barely a sound was heard. At 2,000 feet, a loud boom was heard but no glass was broken. The jet continued to make lower and lower passes, ultimately making five passes at just 200 feet. The house’s window was broken from these passes, but nothing else was broken. Because of the extremely unlikely circumstance of a 200-foot supersonic jet pass, and the minimal damage observed, this myth was declared busted.

[BEagle]

The jet continued to make lower and lower passes, ultimately making five passes at just 200 feet.

I can just see the expression on the face of the Blues' pilot.."You want me to do what?".

Years ago, it was thought that Concorde's Irish Sea supersonic testing might be damaging some god-shop in Cornwall. So test meters were duly installed; when Concorde's distant boom was heard, the needles were indeed seen to flicker...

"You see, you see - told you so!" said the god-botherer. Then someone slammed the church door - and the needles went to full scale deflexion!

[cornish-stormrider]

Beags - I though you at least would have the knowledge that you do not slam the doors in the house of the Lord. You will wake the elderly parishoner haveing a snooze (usually during the sermon)

[Dysonsphere]

When Concorde was in service on a good day you could hear the boom on the NW coast of cornwall, was a wonderfull sound now missed by most I suspect.

[Jollygreengiant64]

YouTube - F-111 FlyBy

Perhaps american sound waves travel with a different accent?

[david parry]

Rodders has only gone and won his case £92,933 in damages plus £28,OOO in legal costs