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Holloman agrees to reconsider sonic booms

The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Nov 20, 2008 9:21:36 EST

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — After hearing from residents of Alamogordo, White Oaks and Nogal, a Holloman Air Force Base official pledged to reconsider an effort to minimize supersonic booms from the F-22 Raptor.

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"Since sonic booms travel farther the higher the altitude of the aircraft, we have reconsidered will now only go supersonic at lower altitudes to minimize the size of the sonic footprint"

You don't know what a sonic boom is until you've experienced something like a Spark Vark performing low level escort jamming coming over your radar site.

randy wrote:"Since sonic booms travel farther the higher the altitude of the aircraft, we have reconsidered will now only go supersonic at lower altitudes to minimize the size of the sonic footprint"

LOL!! I'd LOVE it if they did that!!

randy wrote:"Since sonic booms travel farther the higher the altitude of the aircraft, we have reconsidered will now only go supersonic at lower altitudes to minimize the size of the sonic footprint"

You don't know what a sonic boom is until you've experienced something like a Spark Vark performing low level escort jamming coming over your radar site.

Sounds like someone's been to Tonapah for a Red Flag exercise!

First Shirt wrote: Sounds like someone's been to Tonapah for a Red Flag exercise!

EF-111 OFT&E

CByrneIV wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.....

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.....

I can tell you exactly what that "reconsideration" will be. "Uhh, sir, the locals are whining about "reconsidering" how much noise we make. Hmmm... yes, we've reconsidered, and we'll be making just as much or more".

Without Holloman, there IS no south central New Mexico.

The folks in Alamogordo and the surrounding areas, including El Paso, bitched about the Phantoms when they were there, the F-117s, the Tornados, and now these. Holloman was there before Alamogordo was much more than a wide spot in the road.

We'll reconsider sonic booms.

Lieutenant! Find out how to make the sonic booms louder!

You lives near an Air Force base 'an you takes your chances.

The solution is simple.

BRAC Holloman, move the aircraft elsewhere. Preferably somewhere with overwater training areas.

Problem solved. (Any economic impact is Not Our Concern. They wanted the airplanes to go away, and away they went.)

I'm sure we can find room for another air base here in San Diego, then they can fly out over the ocean and/or south of the border and make as many sonic booms as they want. What, do you think the Mexican Air Force is going to try and catch them? LOL!