Guest Andrea Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 OR at least that what I thought it was. I was sitting in my treestand and it was right at dark, when BOOM-BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scared me to death!!!! Thought maybe the guys at Eglin AFB dropped a bomb WAY OFF TARGET. Just heard on the news, it was the Space Shuttle breaking the sound barrier as it crossed over us. THAT WAS AWESOME. Been a long time since I've heard that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex30808 Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! COOL...I remember once as a child...I was gettin ready for school and watched the shuttle lift off..I got on the shcool bus and about a mile or two down the road I seen the smoke trail from where it had gone up...I did not realize what it was until I got to school and the teacher showed us a tape of the launch (same one I watched at home) and then showed the local news showing the smoke trail!!! That was cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathcoerracin Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! you heard it too? i was in the shootin house and thought iran nuked us!! lol Scared the crap outa me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newarcher Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! I heard it once sitting in a condo in Sanibel Island Florida.....I thought the condo exploded. Everything in the place rattled. Funny....it would have been funnier if you had a big buck in your sights and then WHAMMO, he's gone. Now THAT would be a story! New Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! [ QUOTE ] you heard it too? i was in the shootin house and thought iran nuked us!! lol Scared the crap outa me! [/ QUOTE ] LOL...........I looked up expecting to see a mushroom cloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom2008 Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Wow I think I might have fell out of the tree. Safety harness attached of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Imagine what direction all the deer scattered to!! It is kind of loud! LOL!! I have never the shuttle, but have heard my share of planes breaking the sound barrier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USAFbowhunter Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Yeah that is a really cool sound to hear. I have watched it land out here at Edwards a couple of times. After the boom it doesn't take very long untill it is on the ground. Then it sits at the end of runway forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowhntr Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! [ QUOTE ] Imagine what direction all the deer scattered to!! It is kind of loud! LOL!! I have never the shuttle, but have heard my share of planes breaking the sound barrier! [/ QUOTE ] Sonic boom is a sonic boom. I've heard both planes and the shuttle coming in. I can't tell a difference. I remember the first time I heard the shuttle, I though a truck had hit the side of the shop where I was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Hmmmmm, I've heard plenty of the jets around Eglin breaking the sound barrier, but this was MUCH LOUDER. One time we were fishing about 20 miles offshore when some jets broke the sound barrier. We never saw them, but we just KNEW we were being bombed. LOL. There was more than one jet so they each made their own "BOOM-BOOM-BOOM" as they went over. I screamed!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowhntr Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Might be that I just can't tell the difference, or it was a proximity thing to the cause of the boom. My wife says I'm deaf as a door knob anyway I've fought a lot of fire around Eglin and I've heard the jets down there too. One thing that I've heard but I don't know if it is true....military pilots along the coast aren't supposed to go super until they are out over the open water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddpipkin Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! They DON'T always follow the rules !!! Back when I was in the construction business, I was building a house on Fort Morgan Beach, west of Gulf Shores, AL. Pilings 10 ft. out of the ground, 10 ft. ceilings. 6/12 pitch roof. The ridge beam was @ 36 ft. from the ground. The Blue Angels CONSTANTLY harassed us for two weeks, using that stretch of beach as a practice run. Subsonic at 75 to 100 ft., directly above our heads !! They would go about a half mile down the beach, 200 yds. offshore, @ 100 - 150 ft. altitude, and go supersonic. EARSPLITTING!!! FAA wouldn't do anything, finally called base CO at Eglin, said my next three calls would be to my Senator, my Congressional Rep., and the TV news. That got it stopped. That was a LOOONG time ago, when the population down there wasn't nearly as thick as it is now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! [ QUOTE ] Might be that I just can't tell the difference, or it was a proximity thing to the cause of the boom. My wife says I'm deaf as a door knob anyway I've fought a lot of fire around Eglin and I've heard the jets down there too. One thing that I've heard but I don't know if it is true....military pilots along the coast aren't supposed to go super until they are out over the open water. [/ QUOTE ] We were approx. 20 miles offshore, so I guess they were in their right to scare the crap out of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugshooter Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Where I grew up in Ocala, about an hour and a half from KSC, you could hear the sonic boom really good, the difference between a jet and the shuttle though is there is always two booms with the shuttle. Whenever they launched, I could look out my bedroom window or go in the front yard and see the shuttle going up, it was a lot easier to see it though from the place my grandparents lived at the time, it was out of town and on 40 acres, so you got a more open view. I remember watching a night launch from my bedroom also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! I thought we were going to get lucky and get to watch it land in White Sands, NM. That would have been very cool. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preacherman Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! That had to be super cool to be able to hear that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! Been a long time since I heard it too Andrea. Can remember a few landings when I lived in central Florida. Pretty loud booms, was pretty cool to have seen all the launches we got to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathcoerracin Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] you heard it too? i was in the shootin house and thought iran nuked us!! lol Scared the crap outa me! [/ QUOTE ] LOL...........I looked up expecting to see a mushroom cloud. [/ QUOTE ] me and you both! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted December 24, 2006 Report Share Posted December 24, 2006 Re: EXPLOSION!!!!! that would be something to hear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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