Sonic Boom Heard over Cork 90's

cobhguy28 · 17-07-2013 11:18pm #1

Hello, Does any one remember a loud sonic boom being heard over cork in the 90's. I am not sure of the year i can remember being a kid and hearing this load noise that i think was a sonic boom and remember all the windows shaking in the house. My father would was in the navy said at the time it was a sonic boom as he said he heard them all the time while they where out in the Atlantic with the navy. Is there any reports around of what this was.

Duff · 18-07-2013 1:23am

Never heard of that. I've watched countless documentaries on the subject though and I'd say it could possibly have been a U.S black budget aircraft. Infamous SR-91 maybe.

downonthefarm · 18-07-2013 1:29am

could have been a concorde maybe?

degrassinoel · 18-07-2013 10:03am

Concorde is a strong possibility yeah, British airways and airfrance would both have had trans-atlantic flights in the 90's, possibly breaking the sound barrier before they should have?

Columbia · 18-07-2013 10:05am

It was probably Concorde. I grew up in Kerry and the sound of Concorde was fairly regular.

Duff · 18-07-2013 11:40am

Feckin' Concorde, ruining my beliefs of a Government cover-up!

Myrddin · 18-07-2013 11:42am

Duff wrote: »

Feckin' Concorde, ruining my beliefs of a Government cover-up!

I think anyone who doesn't believe that there are black-budget experimental craft out there flying around, needs to wake up & smell the roses. It's been happening for the last 60 years, no reason to think its any different today. But in this particular case, yeah, I think Concorde would be a more rational explanation

squonk · 18-07-2013 3:56pm

Concorde's flight path brought it out over Cornwall and to the south of Cork. Once they got out over water and away from land, they fairly quickly accelerated and went mach so odds are extremely high that it was Concorde.

[Deleted User] · 22-07-2013 4:21pm

I remember the Concorde flying over Wexford at 4:45 every afternoon. During the winter it was always my alarm for time to untack the pony and head home before dark!

Geomy · 28-07-2013 1:33pm

budgese wrote: »

I remember the Concorde flying over Wexford at 4:45 every afternoon. During the winter it was always my alarm for time to untack the pony and head home before dark!

Yeah I used to spend summer's during the 90s in Wexford and can remember the Concorde flying overhead.
It made a real deep bass sounding long boom which kinda hopped along. ..

[Deleted User] · 02-08-2013 9:47pm

Geomy wrote: »

Yeah I used to spend summer's during the 90s in Wexford and can remember the Concorde flying overhead.
It made a real deep bass sounding long boom which kinda hopped along. ..

Yup, the windows in the house used to give a bit of a bang too. Was really cool! Hard to explain to anyone who hadn't heard it, it was a real "whoomp", and you felt it as much as heard it!

Sam Kade · 23-10-2013 9:58am

Concorde, you could hear it most days over cork around midday back in the 80's and up until it stopped flying. There was a small forest near our house and the sound would drive every pheasant out of it.

68deville · 15-02-2014 1:18pm

Concorde went from subsonic to supersonic once out over the Bristol Channel
Drove every cock pheasant mad!

Sonic Boom Heard over Cork 90's

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