I remember when sonic booms were heard all the damn time around my parents house down in central Alabama. The USN and USAF used to fly training missions low level and on AB all the time through the area. Talk about rattling grandmoms china cabinet when those big bellybutton Phantoms would come screaming through the valley and about 5 seconds later the sound would come following them through.
Used to watch mock dogfights over head all the time as well. We regularly had tankers and fighters hooking up in the area too. You could watch the whole process with binoculars when they flew the race track pattern up about 25k. Then the tanker would head out west and the mock dogfights would start again. Phantoms, A-7 Corsairs and Tomcats tangling it up big time...man it was sweet!
