Remembering the boom in sonic booms that once shook the USA
A sonic boom shook Washington on Sunday for the saddest of reasons: Military jets had scrambled to. For many of us, that boom was a strangely familiar sound, even a welcome one.I grew up on or near U.S. Air Force bases. Sonic booms were part of the soundscape, along with the throaty, chest-tingling roar of fighter planes. I came to like the sounds.
As a test pilot roared past the crowd, six big plate glass windows and 27 smaller panes in the airport’s administration building shattered. None of the onlookers were injured, but, reported the New York Times, some children “cried or clung to their parents.”As the F-100 and its successors were rolled out to squadrons across the country, complaints often followed, including around Westover Air Reserve Base in Massachusetts. So did lawsuits, for damage to buildings or injury to livestock.
“Now when a plane awakens me,” he said, “I lie there and say a little prayer, first, to thank God that there is a youngster up there in that jet watching out for me. Second, to ask that that boy and his plane will get safely back to the field.Sonic booms were, as the saying went, the sound of freedom.
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