Sonic Boom

Apparently they have escorted a civvy airplane to Newcastle airport .

Oh so not the Russians in our air space , the police have now released a statement saying no cause for concern about the planes. 

It was an Air France flight that was not responding to radio contact. 

We ended up out in the street checking our roof was OK , as were many of the neighbours. Perhaps we should have got a street party going..

Just heard from family up in Yorkshire , there has been a sonic  boon. Two RAF Typhoon jets fron Coningsbury have been scrambled to intercept some sort of security risk , thenk goodness we have the RAF '

+ 1 there, it is not only the pilots but the infrastructure that tracks 'un responsive' aircraft, a good video of how it all works is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe46SmN_tjo

(sorry get get the link active so just cut and paste if you want to see it)

And there was me thinking it was Triky Auto setting off in his Concord

France's way of trying to get UK taxpayers to cough up even more for security

Sonic booms used to happen very often when I used to work offshore in the southern north sea in the 1970/80's

I went supersonic in the back seat of a Phantom in about 1981 over the north sea, so it might have been me

I stood on the deck, not burning, and thought to myself, theres Corners in a Phantom.  Always admired that plane

We live very near the coast and when concorde was flying it was supposed to slow down before it got to the land. Sometimes it didn't and we got many sonic booms. Miss it really.