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Re: Double BOOMS!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:31:00 GMT
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So for us shuttle-landing-newbies, what causes the "signature double-boom"?
(I don't get one when my 8480 lands....)
ROSCO
Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote in message
news:G92trx.G19@lugnet.com...
> One would figure I would know better by now, considering the signature
> double-boom, but somehow I didn't pay attention to bad weather over • Florida
> but since Edwards AFB is now the secondary landing site, I still get • caught
> off-guard by the shuttle landing. Those were BIG sonic booms today at • lunch
> time. :-)
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| (...) Sonic boom. I believe they get one shock wave off the nose, and another off the wings, but I really don't remember. This is the first time I had it go overhead when I was outside in Pasadena and the air positively shook (and here I am so used (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| One would figure I would know better by now, considering the signature double-boom, but somehow I didn't pay attention to bad weather over Florida but since Edwards AFB is now the secondary landing site, I still get caught off-guard by the shuttle (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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