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Offline ozrocker

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T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« on: December 21, 2012, 10:10:26 AM »
 :rofl :rofl And what else can you say, but "Oh Crap"!

http://now.msn.com/air-force-pilot-breaks-windows-with-sonic-boom
                                                                                                                                                    
 Not sure why they show A10 photo :headscratch:
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2012, 11:09:46 AM »
Quote from: ozrocker on December 21, 2012, 10:10:26 AM
                                                                         
 Not sure why they show A10 photo :headscratch:
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Offline bigsky

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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2012, 11:37:00 AM »
Quote from: ozrocker on December 21, 2012, 10:10:26 AM

                                                                                                                                                    
 Not sure why they show A10 photo :headscratch:
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cuz its cool.
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2012, 06:15:06 PM »
Quote from: bigsky on December 21, 2012, 11:37:00 AM
cuz its cool.

Can an A-10 even go Mach1+ (without going into a dive).
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2012, 06:26:56 PM »
Quote from: Babalonian on December 21, 2012, 06:15:06 PM
Can an A-10 even go Mach1+ (without going into a dive).

No
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2012, 06:32:54 PM »
Quote from: Babalonian on December 21, 2012, 06:15:06 PM
Can an A-10 even go Mach1+ (without going into a dive).

Nope. Not even close.

In '68 a F105 flyby went supersonic at the Air Force Academy, breaking over 300 windows. Fifteen cadets were injured by glass. Pilot claimed "instrumentation error."

http://www.usafa68.org/text/Windows1968a.pdf
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2012, 07:08:11 PM »
     Heck, I'd be saying "Oh Crap!" too if my A-10 broke the sound barrier  :D
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2012, 09:30:35 PM »
Quote from: ozrocker on December 21, 2012, 10:10:26 AM
                                         
 Not sure why they show A10 photo :headscratch:
                                                                                                                                                           

It's hard to find the right picture when they're all labeled 'AK47.jpg'.

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Offline Buzzard7

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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2012, 11:13:46 PM »
In the late 70's an SR-71 dipped below minimum speed and firewalled the throttles over the cadet area. Broke a few windows without even breaking the sound barrier.
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2012, 08:41:42 AM »
doh! :lol



btw even before supersonic flight, fighter pilots could run up a hefty bill for overdoing it:



:D


(edit: thats about $45k worth of hats in todays money :uhoh)
« Last Edit: December 22, 2012, 08:46:24 AM by RTHolmes »
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2012, 11:54:09 AM »
Quote from: ozrocker on December 21, 2012, 10:10:26 AM
                                                                                                                                                 
 Not sure why they show A10 photo :headscratch:
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The A-10 in the photo is from the 355th FW at Davis Monthan AFB Tucson AZ.
The same place the incident took place.. They probably think they really did their homework.  :lol
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2012, 02:35:28 PM »
My parents used to tell me all the time about hearing sonic booms rattle the windows in our house back in the 70's and 80's from the planes flying out of Dyess AFB.  I never heard of anything damaged though.  :noid
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2012, 04:16:37 PM »
Quote from: RTHolmes on December 22, 2012, 08:41:42 AM
doh! :lol



btw even before supersonic flight, fighter pilots could run up a hefty bill for overdoing it:

(Image removed from quote.)

:D


(edit: thats about $45k worth of hats in todays money :uhoh)

Thats alotta beer  :lol
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2012, 09:31:11 PM »
T-38's used to train out above the Arizona desert when I was a kid. We loved those "BOOMS". Made us feel safe that the Air Force was watching over us.  :old:
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Re: T-Bird Pilot mistakenly breaks Sound Barrier, causes 22k damage
« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2012, 01:54:27 AM »
I remember at a Control comp. at Dobbins ARB here in GA. back in 06 we had a F-14 and a F-22 hit full Abs over the parking lot. About 450ft above us the F-14 jock waved the ground mumbled a bit when they came over.
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