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Article #8368Municipal sonic booms
From: Peter Scott
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1989 18:07
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1989 18:07
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epiwrl!parker@uunet.uu.net (Alan Parker) writes: >In article <9572@ut-emx.UUCP> tmca@emx.UUCP (The Anarch) writes: >>What gets me though is that neither Great Britain nor the U.S.A. will >>allow them >>to fly supersonic over land (last I heard, anyhow) and yet both these nations >>allow their military junk to make as much noise as it feels like. >This just isn't true. Military jets rarely (never?) fly supersonic of >US land, except on the ranges out in the deserts where there aren't any >people and buildings. When was the last time you heard a sonic boom >over a US city? About three years ago. All of Los Angeles hears a respectable boom when the space shuttle makes an approach from the south instead of the west. So far I don't think anyone has complained. Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV!PJS From: PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Municipal sonic booms Message-ID: <890124110727.00000203083@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 24 Jan 89 18:07:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18