Sonic booms from Eurofighter aircraft testing

Such loud bangs also happen when too many girls lose virginity within a short period of time. You know, release of all that energy at once and all. Its Christmas time and there is lot of love in the air so you never know.

I am starting to wonder what they are doing out there at TU Garching.

I heard it too here in Freimann.. if it wasn't a sonic boom, it must have been one hell of an explosion for us to all here it all over Munich..

TUM-G, the IPP and all the MPIs are still here. The noise was sufficiently loud for me to swere my bike and look in the direction of the reactor though...

Did not notice yesterday, but heard it in Oberföhring today. Quickly opened the window in the event it was followed by fire (not morbid, just realistic)

Same here over at Stiglmaierplatz - through my hazy Nyquil coated brain thought perhaps the world may finally be coming to an end, but then decided that I didn't care and went back to sleep.

Erm. I'm completely lost at this point. Why did you open the window?

Ooh I love lateral thinking problems

Actually I did the same thing Was like 'What was that? hmmm...oh well'. I was more annoyed that it actually woke me up and I could feel my throat pain again

to let the fire have some air and so end the pain qiuckly...

Benpanther are u seriously asking why i opened the window??? What would you do if you are in a building and suspect fire whithout knowing whether or not this fire could actually be in other parts of the building??? Going under the bed only works if there is actually a bed...none in my office. My first instinct would be to move away from the fire...maybe through the window (believe it or not!)

Yes, I was seriously asking why you opened the window. It was somewhat unclear from your first post whether you thought the fire was inside or outside, and what you were going to gain by opening the window. Thank you for explaining.

What floor are you on?

so this noise was heard all over. munich (heard it too near Rotkreutzplatz-however it's spelled). what was it?

noone's come up with an explanantion other than 'sonic boom' which sounds a bit 70's B-movie to me...

why does that sound 70's B-movie?

Sounds perfectly feasible to me

FACTS:

The Eurofighter is doing 14 tests or days of Tests... One supersonic in the Morning, One in the afternoon.

There will be many more in the new year.

The flights originate from Ingolstadt.

This is Direct from one of Munich airports Air traffic controlors.

G

Indeed it does. A bit off topic and probably old news to most, but if you haven't heard anything about it you might want to check this out.

Palestinians hit by sonic boom air raids

Yup it's the boys at EADS Manching playing with their new toy the Eurofighter Typhoon

I experienced the "Boom" once whilst working on a roof in Heimhausen... Nearly shat me pants!

" man found in suspicious circumstances pointing satellite dish at fighter aircraft in brown overalls "

All was quiet in Martnisreid. But then, it's always quiet in Martinsreid.

I heard it too in Riem.
It was not that loud here but it was obvious that it was a pretty massive bang.

I really don't want to believe it was a sonic boom... does anyone have any more suggestions.

Read Post 83.

Confirmed by Airport ATC...

Want his phone number so you can ask him too??

G

What is so unbelievable about it being a sonic boom? Especially as that it is what it was?

I'm confused

how come thats legal? As i said earlier, i am from somewhere where living with fighter craft is pretty everyday but we've always been made ot understand they cant go mach over land... or even NEAR land... has something changed since August(when i left)...?

C'mon now, you know that "sonic booms" are really some sort of sonic mind control which is emitted from US military bases in their relentless fight against terror. Supersonic planes, pffft! Reality check man, everyone knows you die if you go faster than the speed of sound

Why not?

Cos he just wants an arguement...

Eurofighter has permissin to break the sound barrier, only during essensial testing excersises.. This can include pilot training.

the only people that need to be informed are other local air authorities..

In this case, Munich, Nürnberg, Augsberg and Salzberg.. All Millitary basses will be inform internally.

G

Raaaaiiiight,

OH! btw, the reason i thought it sounded seventies B-movie was...

Sonic BOOM, has noone stopped for a second to think how STUPID that sounds, especially when ur talking about big mean killing machines and stuf...

strewth, no-one ever lived remotely near a fighter base before? this happens regularly off the east coast of scotland. plays buggery with your putting but otherwise it's really not a big deal at all.

I've heard sonic booms a couple of times over LAND.. mostly when hiking. Once near Colorado Springs (Air Force college) and maybe 3 times in Lake Tahoe..

I don't think it's such a big deal

Cos sonic booms are just a weird explanation... it really does sound like a science fiction cartoon not real life.

It also sounds really odd that they would do test flights so close to a massive city.

Also correct me if I'm wrong but did they not used to wait until over the atlantic before going supersonic on concorde so as to not disturb the londoners / NYers.

What is to stop them doing the test flights over the sea? That way no one is disturbed / shits themselves and in the unlikely event of our test flight losing cabin pressure... it doesn't crash into a pleasant suburb of munich.

well, thats why i was surprised, because i lived most of my life, 200METRES form an RAF base(my school was 40metres away from the runway...) and i NEVER heard one...

Yer, but 'Sonic Fucking-Loud-Noisy-Bang-Bang' doesn't quite have the same ring.

If it's good enough for Basil Brush, it's good enough for killing machines.

KT

I heard what I guessed was a sonic boom at the time, way out here in Seefeld, around 10:15am

loud as fuck...

supa sonic

Thupa Thonic what?

salt 'n peppa say that noise you heard was

supa sonic

When was the last time you ever went to the see? Its a fucking long drive from here..

Concord went super-sonic just out over Cardigan bay.. it could be heard in Wales..

They actually break the sound barrier out between Dachau and Augsburg

Munich is not a masive city.

G

Ah but I'd guess that they wouldn't be driving, Grinner.

Maybe someone broke the sound barrier on the autobahn around here?

probably.

probably a moderator

when I moved here, I was told to expect sonic booms, as they test over the ammersee...which is right next door...maybe that info was wrong, but someone's gotta explain on the sonic booms out here, then.

To add fuel to the fire of you conspiracy theorists. From Wiki:


T'was pretty cold this morning.

But seriously, the Typhoon has passed its latest cold weather test so it could very well be one that you guys heard.

ok, so actually it seems like in a way i was right, they DONT test over land, but over a big lake type thingy... genius... technicalities huh?

when travelling at over Mach 1 ( approx 750 mph at sea level ), it would need to be a bloody big lake !

testing has to be done over varying landscapes to explore the aircraft's flight envelope including terrain following radar performance

as said elsewhere in the thread it is usually done in remote areas like certain parts of Scotland etc

the other part of the thread said off the east COAST of scotland...so NOT over certain parts of scotland, rather around it...

..."this happens regularly off the east coast of scotland. plays buggery with your putting but otherwise it's really not a big deal at all."

so...