Boomer in oxon
 

Anyone lay claim??

I am being quizzed by the locals about sonic boom!!

What time of day was this as I understand that 2 Typhoons were scrambled to intercept and escort a bizjet into Cardiff today.

Typhoons in a hurry - Oxford Mail

And on the BBC

Heard in N. Bucks at about 1545, shook the building I was in.

Interesting car reg on the video....

This is what we know about a dramatic afternoon at Cardiff Airport which saw two RAF jets escort a plane in to land - Wales Online

Close: But no cigar.
 

Fantastic air to air photo, possibly taken from a Typhoon.

Was anyone else expecting a large submarine heading up the Thames?

Do Typhoon have VHF?

Do Typhoon have VHF?


'No its all done by thought transference'

Really, how does that work?

Does the Typhoon make a louder boom than Concorde did? Used to hear Concorde all the time at St Athans, and I didn't think it was particularly loud.

Typhoon pilots communicate by ESP (Extra Sensory Perception). The aircraft's comm's sense what the pilot is thinking and transmits his thoughts to a satellite and via this to a speech processor for de-cryption and thus to VHF within line of sight range.

So it operates on a really narrow bandwidth then Out of Trim

They make plenty enough noise just testing the reheat out over the Ribble estuary.... can hear it inside the house from miles away!

Thanks Oldmansquipper, Airpolice and Archimedes.

Turin, I'm off on a stroll to the Isis to look for periscopes...

Pretty impressive bizjet. :ugh:

I am led to believe that the interception was poorly executed as one of the Typhoons provoked a TCAS RA from the target aircraft.

I would be amazed if any 'interception' did not provoke a TCAS RA. (That's probably what woke up the bizjet crew.:uhoh:)

I would guess Fitter that you are not a pilot as your post shows no understanding of the event. They are not meant to provoke a crew into an RA, and any sudden descent or climb may be incorrectly interpreted as a hostile act, with fatal consequences.