Huge bangs in Leeds

[yorkshireman]

I don't know what it was but it was massive,windows shaking and everyone out in the street,it was heard all over Yorkshire according to twitter

[yorkshireman]

Apparently a Tornado flying over and sonic boom.

[BrenD]

May 2, 2016 21:34:08 GMT yorkshireman said:

Apparently a Tornado flying over and sonic boom.

That sounds like the best possible thing it could have been!

[ceedee]

A pair of Typhoons from Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) heading off to challenge an Air France aircraft which turned out to have legitimate radio problems over the North Sea.
The Air France plane subsequently landed at Newcastle.


Correction:

The Typhoons from RAF Coningsby intercepted the Air France flight just north of Leeds and escorted it east over the North Sea before heading north to land at Newcastle.

[yorkshireman]

It was on the news this morning,i have never heard anything so loud.

[Deleted]

I heard the report on the car radio this morning.

[yorkshireman]

Take a look at the greenhouse further down the page.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/our-city/what-caused-sonic-booms-heard-across-yorkshire-as-jets-scrambled-to-aid-air-france-plane-1-7888727

[nanotm]

yorkshireman

that's why only the alert aircraft have permission to drop a boom below 1000ft, that fella should be glad they were high enough to only trash his greenhouse if they had been nap of the earth the sound would flatten houses .... there was a video on YouTube of a pair of typhoons going supersonic as they came off the runway (about 15 ft off the ground) and the end of the runway disintegrates along with a hedgerow fence line and several trees, particularly when you have the second aircraft doing the same thing a second later and amplifying the noise created by the first making it orders of magnitude more powerful than the noise created by a loan aircraft....

still I'd rather know they were doing their job on time and preventing a mass casualty situation than have my greenhouse intact because they went slower and failed to prevent something, as with most things its a trade off between total safety or minor damage and minimal losses/

[yorkshireman]

May 3, 2016 11:28:21 GMT nanotm said:

yorkshireman

that's why only the alert aircraft have permission to drop a boom below 1000ft, that fella should be glad they were high enough to only trash his greenhouse if they had been nap of the earth the sound would flatten houses .... there was a video on YouTube of a pair of typhoons going supersonic as they came off the runway (about 15 ft off the ground) and the end of the runway disintegrates along with a hedgerow fence line and several trees, particularly when you have the second aircraft doing the same thing a second later and amplifying the noise created by the first making it orders of magnitude more powerful than the noise created by a loan aircraft....

still I'd rather know they were doing their job on time and preventing a mass casualty situation than have my greenhouse intact because they went slower and failed to prevent something, as with most things its a trade off between total safety or minor damage and minimal losses/

I absolutely agree with you,if there had been an incident on the Air France plane it could have been a lot worse than a trashed greenhouse.

[calnorth]

I woke up in a slight panic one night (mid 70's) when three QRA Phantoms took off after a Russian Bear..maybe more? A pic turned up next day in the papers of Russian aircrew waving. That was RAF Coningsby and I was in a married quarter about 400 yds off the runway, and am sure the wind was my way.

You get used to those things running up and down..not three off them in one go though. All fun stuff?

[digicig]

Grew up in Carlyon Bay, St Austell, in Cornwall in the 70's - and used to hear the Sonic Boom from Concorde quite regularly for a while - until they stopped or changed the route. Was quite a shock to the system when you first hear it - then just became 'normal'

[calnorth]

May 3, 2016 15:41:31 GMT digicig said:

Grew up in Carlyon Bay, St Austell, in Cornwall in the 70's - and used to hear the Sonic Boom from Concorde quite regularly for a while - until they stopped or changed the route. Was quite a shock to the system when you first hear it - then just became 'normal'

ah yes...gone are the days digicig. Bloody pitiful really because I used to watch the Concorde engines being tested at Filton (Bristol) and around about. Strapped to a Canberra bomber I think...memory now fades?

You likely had to keep your head low what with the test pilots slinging new jets out of Boscombe Down and into the Atlantic?