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Offline AKKuya

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Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« on: April 20, 2010, 11:55:51 AM »
Heard the shuttle Discovery on landing this morning.  Very loud!!!!!!!
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Re: Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2010, 12:10:10 PM »
Quote from: AKKuya on April 20, 2010, 11:55:51 AM
Heard the shuttle Discovery on landing this morning.  Very loud!!!!!!!
Cool I saw it on TV live bet it was cool actually being there though. :cool:
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Re: Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2010, 12:13:21 PM »





<---Not from here, no.  But would have been cool.
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Re: Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2010, 06:10:50 PM »
Saw the shuttle re-entry once during a night landing. Freaking amazing.
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Re: Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2010, 06:14:33 PM »
Grew up in central Florida.  Used to be able to see the liftoffs & hear the boom of the landings.  Sometimes they would land really early in the morning & wake everyone with the boom.  They would let us out of class to watch the day liftoffs, but the night ones are amazing.  Even from a 45 minute drive away, you could still see it perfectly, day or night.  The night ones would light up the entire sky.
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Re: Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2010, 06:42:04 PM »
Yeah I was at my mom's in Houston a couple years ago & got to see the Shuttle going over head on it's way to land at night, it was freaking amazing, it left a glowing plasma trail behind it & was just moving at an unbelievable speed over head.
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Re: Anybody hear the sonic boom?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2010, 06:47:55 PM »
Quote from: trax1 on April 20, 2010, 06:42:04 PM
Yeah I was at my mom's in Houston a couple years ago & got to see the Shuttle going over head on it's way to land at night, it was freaking amazing, it left a glowing plasma trail behind it & was just moving at an unbelievable speed over head.

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