The Peterborians are revolting...
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The Peterborians are revolting...
It doesn't take much to upset this lot - including the sound of freedom apparently. Not all of them I should add, but a few really need to have a word with themselves.
http://m.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/politics-news/loud-bang-heard-over-peterborough-was-sonic-boom-1-6101729
http://m.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/politics-news/loud-bang-heard-over-peterborough-was-sonic-boom-1-6101729
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Elizabeth Buckeley, in Orton Longueville, said: “The bang was so loud I thought the planes had crashed.
“The planes should not be allowed to do that over a city.
“I have never heard anything like it. I have heard sonic booms before, but only from a distance.”
“The planes should not be allowed to do that over a city.
“I have never heard anything like it. I have heard sonic booms before, but only from a distance.”
Just sent an e-mail to the Peterborough paper in response - pointed out that "jet noise is the sound of freedom - say thank you for the air defence provided by the RAF"
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Dear Sirs
I found the sonic boom reassuring. It proves that despite what successive limp-wristed governments have done to the UK’s defence and public services, the country still has a functioning Air Force that is capable of responding to a potential threat.
I found the sonic boom reassuring. It proves that despite what successive limp-wristed governments have done to the UK’s defence and public services, the country still has a functioning Air Force that is capable of responding to a potential threat.
Email to the 'Peterborough Today' newspaper. I doubt if they will publish it as is.
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I'd love to hear a sonic boom again. Haven't done so since about 1978.
I bet it's a nicer sound than a 767 coming through your window.
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I love the way that the Peterporough Telegraph continues to spread the myth that there are 3 'n's in Coningsby. I believe it must be a sister station of Honington which often has 4.
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I'd love to hear a sonic boom again. Haven't done so since about 1978.
I bet it's a nicer sound than a 767 coming through your window
I bet it's a nicer sound than a 767 coming through your window
You can leave the leather chaps in the wardrobe to avoid embarrassment
Public comment to the Peterborough Telegraph seems solidly onside 
Last I heard was a few years ago whilst sailing Prince William in the North Sea; visited by low level Tornado followed some time later by 'boom-boom'. Can the Tornado exceed M1.0?
Last I heard was a few years ago whilst sailing Prince William in the North Sea; visited by low level Tornado followed some time later by 'boom-boom'. Can the Tornado exceed M1.0?
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Heard one once from a Air France Concorde when I was sailing from Brest to the Solent.
Rattled our sails a touch - but "shook houses" hmmmmmmmmm. I don't think so.
Rattled our sails a touch - but "shook houses" hmmmmmmmmm. I don't think so.
... 'twas Concorde!
Takes me back to the late 70s when I first moved to West Cornwall and the nightly incoming Concorde would rattle the windows on occasion. If you had an "up country" visitor, the single word "Concorde" was sufficient explanation. After a while they shifted the point at which she went subsonic further West and the booms stopped, which I thought was a pity.