Holloman agrees to reconsider sonic booms

[NVGdude]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.....

Holloman was there before Alamogordo was much more than a wide spot in the road.

Seriously Alamogordo is still just a wide spot in the road. Only good thing about it is it has more German Restaurants per capita than any place I've ever been.

[Dub_James]

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!

But, but the sonic booms might hurt the ears of the whalesies and dophlinies and fishies and....

[Steamforger]

Sonic booms are a feature, not a bug. These people should love the noise. It's the sound of freedom.

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.

I remember the day well. I was walking out of the aft superstructure headed forward, and it felt like the entire damned ship blew up. I nearly lost my footing, and was convinced we had blown up some boilers because of the way the deck had bucked. Recovering a slight bit, I notice an F-14 headed out of my AO at what I would call "Ludicrous Speed." I would bet paychecks that he didn't break 200 ASL at any point in the fly-by.

[308Mike]

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!

But, but the sonic booms might hurt the ears of the whalesies and dophlinies and fishies and....

Nope, they reflect right back off the water and continue spreading, until they bounce off something else. They don't even penetrate the water - completely unnoticed down below.

[Drone 7 of lots more]

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!

But, but the sonic booms might hurt the ears of the whalesies and dophlinies and fishies and....

Nope, they reflect right back off the water and continue spreading, until they bounce off something else. They don't even penetrate the water - completely unnoticed down below.

dingdingdingdingding! We have a solution! Sink Alamagordo!

[SoupOrMan]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.....

Holloman was there before Alamogordo was much more than a wide spot in the road.

Seriously Alamogordo is still just a wide spot in the road. Only good thing about it is it has more German Restaurants per capita than any place I've ever been.

I remember when we had the Luftwaffe fly in from Holloman. The aircrews and their families were being stationed there as part of the Air Force's "teaching Johnny Foreigner to use fighter aircraft like God (or at least Robin Olds) meant them to be used" program.