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Offline undatc

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Sonic boom boom baby!
« on: August 19, 2010, 10:53:25 PM »
The my boss was in town Tuesday, and some poor Canadian float plane on the way back from vacation got a little too close to the TFR.  Fighters scrambled off PDX and headed towards the TFR.  The controller working the sector between PDX and SEA, is a buddy of mine, and a fellow trainee.  He had just been signed off that morning (got signed off as AF1 was arriving), and had just come back from break.  He plugged in as the fighters were scrambling to work his FIRST solo radar position.  The flight lead ROCK01 asked if he had permission to go super sonic, he didnt know better, and replied with, "affirmative".  And BOOM away they went!

I was sitting in my car at work and heard it, and was like WOAH!!!  Crazy loud and I felt like something had hit me in my chest.  Attached is a picture of the radar scope of what we saw from our side of the world.


http://federalway.komonews.com/content/sonic-booms-national-guard-fighter-jets-heard-across-puget-sound

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A sonic boom rocked Puget Sound this afternoon around 1:50 p.m. after National Guard fighter jets responded to reports of a private aircraft entering presidential airspace while President Barack Obama was in Seattle today. 

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirms that two F-15 jets were launched from the 142nd Air National Guard unit based in Portland. According to the Oregon National Guard, the jets were dispatched for a "real world mission," not a drill.

NORAD Spokesman John Cornelio says the aircraft left the restricted area before the Air National Guard jets arrived, and there was no interception. Todd Banks with Kenmore Air, who owns the harbor where the plane landed, says it was a Cessna 180 seaplane (video above) that landed on north Lake Washington before the fighter jets got to it. The secret service is now questioning the man and woman on board.

A passenger, Laura Joseph of Normandy Park, told The Associated Press she and the pilot were returning from Lake Chelan in eastern Washington and didn't know of the flight restrictions.

Meanwhile, 911 lines were down in Pierce County until 3 p.m. according to Sheriff spokesman Detective Ed Troyer.

"Many house and car alarms have been set off that we will not be able to respond to," said Troyer just after 2 p.m.

The lines are back up now but Troyer asks that residents not call 911 about the sonic boom.
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2010, 12:09:14 PM »
Man, when I was really young, five or four, the first lebanon war was going on and I lived closed to the border, and those F-4s were flying at 500 AGL... That's a sonic boom you never forget!
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 01:08:43 PM »
Undatc,

Your friend started a trend:

SEATTLE – A Seattle company is commemorating the sonic booms that frightened people from Chehalis to Seattle during Pres. Obama's visit on Tuesday with a special edition "Obooma" T-shirt.

The sonic booms came from two F-15 fighter jets that were scrambled from Portland because of a small plane that entered the restricted airspace around Air Force One.

Within hours of the blasts heard 'round the Northwest, Zazzle.com had produced "I felt it. Obooma! Seattle '10" shirts.

The company said the response has been so great, they will be donating proceeds to The Moyer Foundation.
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 09:55:26 PM »
His visit shut all of LA's airports down for a day and a half and people were stuck in traffic for hours because you never know where exactly the road blocks will be.   ::loony:: ::complaining:

There's gotta be a better happy medium!

I think it's kind of ironic to think that while he's talking about fixing the economy, he completely shuts it down with his visit . . ..   ::whistle::
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 10:58:57 PM »
Got to ask this but.....is the controller going to get a reprimant for allowing the fighters to go supersonic?
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2010, 06:38:17 PM »
No, its sounds like they will spin it to the effect of, "due to national security......"  Worst case scenario he might get a little talk to by the station chief.

Plus he's got one cool nickname for the rest of his life!
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2010, 07:51:02 PM »
Quote from: undatc on August 21, 2010, 06:38:17 PM
Plus he's got one cool nickname for the rest of his life!

"Obooma"?  Hehe.

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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2010, 01:58:10 PM »
Sonic?
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2010, 04:08:09 PM »
Perhaps "Boom Boom"?     ::whistle:: ::drinking::

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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2010, 05:13:27 AM »
Sorry, guess I forgot to tell you what the nickname wound up being.

RC got it right, his new name is Boom Boom.  |:)\
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2010, 05:52:56 AM »
Quote from: undatc on August 24, 2010, 05:13:27 AM
Sorry, guess I forgot to tell you what the nickname wound up being.

RC got it right, his new name is Boom Boom.  |:)\

Hey!  I got it right!!!  YAAAYYY!!!   Beer and Strippers all around!!!

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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2010, 11:54:36 AM »
We're cheep here R/c you know that.  You only get a Gold star and a cocconut  ;)
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2010, 05:45:30 PM »
What!?!?  I don't even get a kewpie doll?   ::complaining:
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2010, 08:13:06 PM »
we may get you a blow up doll if you realy want... ::)
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Re: Sonic boom boom baby!
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2010, 10:00:11 PM »
Quote from: Fabo on August 24, 2010, 08:13:06 PM
we may get you a blow up doll if you realy want... ::)

Hmmmmmmm...   ::thinking::  OK, I'll take it!   ;D ::whistle::
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