Richard E Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Did anyone notice this: BBC News Linky Apparently the rear cockpit had an oxygen failure so it had to loose altitude rapidly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The wooksta V2.0 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Yeah, News 24 had bother trying to spin out a non-story and make it sound interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Oh, I heard a bang and thought the sky was falling in! What is wrong with people? Are we regressing? Notice the first witness works for a firm of Solicitors, and is probably gathering papers for a class action for "stress & anxiety" as we speak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 What a bunch of muppets, chicken licken all over again Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx6667 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) They're obviously covering up an Aurora overflight then? Edited January 16, 2008 by Jonathan Mock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 My point exactly! How on earth could you mistake a sonic boom for an earthquake? Muppetry is on the rise. I think people are watching too much Britains Most Haunted... and other crap that's trying to regress us into supserstitious peasants again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahut Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 See, the problem here is there isnt ENOUGH of this sort of thing overhead, these days. When I was a lad I lived near NAS Pt. Mugu, CA and sonic booms were daily event. To even comment on them would be silly. We need MORE military showing. Now, we run into the streets for a even a small burrito fart. I agree with the lot of you... our fellow citizens are becoming a bunch of whining milksops. Thank God for stalwarts like yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I guess Joe Public can mistake a sonic boom for an earthquake because the vast majority of them have experienced neither phenomenon. Anyone who has sat through an earthquake will know how stupid it is to confuse it with a sonic boom, but most Brits have never experienced an earthquake of course. Likewise, these days there aren't many people who know what a sonic boom sounds or feels like. The irony of the story is that RAF Shawbury has the worst record in terms of numbers of noise disturbance complaints - thanks to the helicopter activity and an area full of snotty horse owners, pig-headed farmers and the like. Couldn't have picked a worse base to make a boom over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalguru Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 The irony of the story is that RAF Shawbury has the worst record in terms of numbers of noise disturbance complaints - thanks to the helicopter activity and an area full of snotty horse owners, pig-headed farmers and the like. Couldn't have picked a worse base to make a boom over! Posh gits- after a power dive to low altitude, a full war emergency slow ascent 1% nose up power climb back to safe altitude would have been acceptable me thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamEM Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Just shows how much shock absorbtion and stress modern aircraft can take, people may slag this aifcraft off like they did when the front wheel collapsed at Coningsby, but it's STILL an amazing piece of kit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Just shows how much shock absorbtion and stress modern aircraft can take, people may slag this aifcraft off like they did when the front wheel collapsed at Coningsby, but it's STILL an amazing piece of kit ! Except for the oxygen supply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamEM Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Except for the oxygen supply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunpowder17 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 "Muppetry" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamEM Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Hmm i've just realised what i've done.....it's true people can't multitask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Thing is, there is emergency oxygen on the seat, and it only affected the rear cockpit according to the article. Which means that the 'emergency' descent may not have needed to be quite so rapid as to frighten all the chicken lickens so badly! Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Trails were left by the plane, said witness Andy Brooks I'm beginning to despair of the Human Race, and Britons in particular...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 You can see the next headline "Fears that RAF's new Fighter is not performing, as it is often seen being followed by clouds" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I'm beginning to despair of the Human Race, and Britons in particular...... I agree, although you don't need to single out Britons. Every place is getting like it. From the BBC report: 'One of the callers, Jackie Cassidy said: "It was really frightening."' So, from this we can assume that an army equipped with nothing more than paper bags and firecrackers could conduct a war of terror? As long as the victims then get a chance to 'phone the BBC to tell everyone else how they suffered. Blech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeEaton Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Very funny story Although once again, it's a shame to see everyone jump on the 'Britain's going to s**t' bandwagon again. Perhaps if people heard sonic booms overhead a little more often, we wouldn't have this problem? I can't blame anyone for hearing a large, unexplainable boom overhead if I'd never heard one before. Hell, I can honestly say I have never experienced a sonic boom before and would probably be in the same confused situation as most of the other people in this story. It's easy in hindsight, with military jet knowledge, to say "Oh what a bunch of muppets, they didn't immediately know it was a Eurofighters sonic boom" but for the vast majority of normal people, hearing a loud boom overhead only means one thing. Something bad has happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 but for the vast majority of normal people, hearing a loud boom overhead only means one thing. Something bad has happened. Yes, you may be right, but people do seem to over-react (Brits or otherwise). It was a loud(ish) noise, and not inherently frightening. I do remember the first time I heard a sonic boom - late 60s, early 70s, living on the south coast, when Concorde first started being used commercially. The reaction, and not just mine, was, "wonder what that was?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 "Wonder what that was?" would have been my reaction too. I suspect the BBC reporters just looked & looked until they found the muppets that were prepared to put their muppetry on record for all the other muppets to go "That's just awful" about. If anyone said "Yeah, there was this bang, and then I finished eating my sarnie", they wouldn't have got published, cos it's not as thrilling as people being petrified that it's the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse thundering down the road towards you. Journalists... Dog love 'em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fea Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Ayup All... We Brits are becoming a nation of pussies... :w***: I'd enjoy listening to sonic booms during the day, it'd liven them up. i work in a quarry in a place called Cannock chase in staffordshire. we're only 2 mins from cosford (or less maybe) as the Eurofighter flies. we're chewing into a ridge that when you stand on it, you see all the way to the Wrekin and beyond. we have wokka wokka birds, jets and Hercs, and all sorts flying over. even a bit of tree-top stuff occasionally, as they fly into and out of Cosford, and i'd like to see my foreman poo-poo hisself as one 'boomed' cos he hates me modelling at work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Laidlaw Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 "Yeah, there was this bang, and then I finished eating my sarnie" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrite Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I personally feel the RAF should be aloud to do what they like. I would love a few sonic booms echoing through the north west once in a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perry Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I'm not even going to waste my effort saying anything about the crappy comments on that report. All I'll say is I'm glad the crew weren't harmed and well done to them for correcting what could have been a disaster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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