Sonic booms from Eurofighter aircraft testing

you'd be the one to know but it has been said that they would be having fighters patrolling over munich for the games.

Certainly heard it here in Gröbenzell and the B I was trying to write at the time didn't turn out anything like a B at all! I can't believe that they don't have elderly people with dodgey tickers keeling over at these times.

And here I thought it was just me!

The first time I heard them, it scared the bejesus out of me! I thought for sure that a mortar had landed in the neighborhood.

GAF isn't yet fully operational with the new jets yet. That's not to say they couldn't do air-to air if they wanted to.

I have a great view here over the city (to the alps on one side and across flatness on the other) and I can't see any things flying around. ...

They're flying so fast (ie. breaking the sound barrier) that you didn't see them!!!

And they are pretty small compared to "normal" passenger planes you see in the sky. If they are up high you will find it very difficult to spot them.

Heard it down here (Ammersee) as well, maybe it's to scare the Costa Ricans ?

More Eurofighter testing? Just heard two funny booms, direction south of Ramersdorf.

oops sorry about that Cinzia, knew i shouldn't have had that curry last night

didnt boom but just went past my window

I've heard fighter jets off and on since I arrived here in early June. They are definitely testing something, they've been buzzing south of Starnberg regularly lately. Low flying and deafening!

Fast low-flying jet just buzzed Westend. Didn't see it but it made quite a racket.

same here, pretty sure it was single-engined jet.

Din't hear nuffink guv'nor.

I read today that Saudi Arabia has just ordered 72 of these babies. Maybe it was a celebratory sonic boom? This will keep a few TTers in jobs, eh?

Anybody else here a really big boom around 16:45, Thursday Nov 9, 2006

I live near Wasserman, roughly Belgrad and Herzog strasse. It didn't sound like thunder and it shook my building. Just curious if anybody else heard/felt it.

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Yep, heard it near Luisenstrasse/Shellingstr. No idea what it was though. I hear them once in a (long) while...

Huge wasn't it? No idea what it was. There are sometimes sonic booms as they test aircraft, but it seems unlikely in this weather.

I heard it too and the funky thing is, I live 20 km southwest of Munich near Fürstenfeldbruck!!

Probably the boys playing with their toys again

I heard it also in Garching, so most probably is some test with some plane as a few months ago.

Edit: yeap, exactly that link that Dave provided.

Heard it up here in freising as well shocked the bejesus out of me. must be the eurofighters at it again.

Any idea what it was? It was so loud, it was unnerving.

I'm based in Schwabing. Anybody else hear it?

Heard it pretty load in Pasing.

Its been going on in Regensburg the last few days and it is jets. Now merge this thread.

I heard it and jumped - it sounded like it was coming from the west.
(and I was near Luitpold park at the time). I said was coming, because it seemed to echo to the north.

Definitely a sonic boom.

i heard it too, i am between hauptbahnhof and königsplatz

I heard it in Obersendling !

Should this be moved to the adult thread ?

I heard it here in Glockenbach but interested by the fact that nobody appeared to react... no sense no feeling???

Heard it out at Ostbahnhof

Geez - Edited.

So did I. Massive it was. Good job I was already in the doctor's waiting-room. Half those waiting nearly had heart attacks.
If it was a sonic boom then they ought to be banned over the city. Especially on Sundays.

It's thursday.

I didnt hear it...

I heard it in Fürstenfeldbruck... Heard it a few times in the past too...

Past discussions:

Sonic booms from aircraft over Munich

Looks like many folk have heard it before..

The funny thing is, they never zap us at work, we don't hear them at all

Sonic Boom. Heard it at OEZ as well. Shook all the fucking huge, plate glass windows in our building and the even bigger ones at the construction site across the street. WTF are they doing flying supersonic over city centres?

woof.

Maybe some of them read this site and want to see how many people they can piss off ?

They're not doing it over city centres; we heard it loud and clear 40kms away up here. I guess the waves travel such a long distance that it's inevitable that major conurbations will hear it.

The pilot was stopping by for shopping.

In damp, dense air the shock wave will travel further anyway so they've probably been testing for days and it just hasn't reached here with such magnitude before today's weather.

I don't think I said it wasn't.
It's just that everything should be banned on Sundays. What is the world coming to.

Did anyone else hear a boom just then?

Boom, anyone?

Or something from the building site..

Nothing here!

They havent found another Flieger bomb have they??