KaBOOM ! Your tax dollars at work ?

[jdmidwest]

8 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

Hopefully "they" have come to take back their Presidential Candidates. 

I don't think they are from outer space, more like hell. 

[fishinwrench]

Psychopaths with too much money. 

[lee G.]

In his book, Sled Driver, SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul writes: "I'll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (my backseater) and I were screaming across Southern California, 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace. Though they didn't really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope. I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its groundspeed."

"90 knots" Center replied.

"Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same."

"120 knots," Center answered.

"We weren't the only ones proud of our groundspeed that day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, 'Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests groundspeed readout.'

"There was a slight pause, then the response, 525 knots on the ground, Dusty".

"Another silent pause. As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my backseater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison." "Center, Aspen 20, you got a groundspeed readout for us?"

There was a longer than normal pause.... "Aspen, I show 1,742 knots"

"No further inquiries were heard on that frequency"

[lee G.]

In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 60 (60,000ft).

The incredulous controller, with some disdain in his voice, asked, "How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?"

"The pilot (obviously a sled driver), responded, "We don't plan to go up to it, we plan to go down to it."

He was cleared...

[Gavin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom

This might explain it to you...

 

 

[Fish24/7]

local officials report it was just exploding swamp gases

[fishinwrench]

That was educational, thanks.  So whatever it was must have been travelling E-NE.  

I'm glad I wasn't doing a cylinder drop test on an engine when that boom happened, I would have hurt myself bad. 

[Fish24/7]

do a google search of "loud booms heard around the world"

 

[Fish24/7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyquake

[fishinwrench]

1 minute ago, Fish24/7 said:

do a google search of "loud booms heard around the world"

Noway, I've got things to accomplish today. ?