At around 1.05 p.m. this afternoon, there was an extremely loud bang which caused complete pandemonium in the local Woodpigeon community!
From my flat, I could see large numbers of Woodpigeons flying around which had evidently been shocked in to flight from the trees and bushes beyond the houses opposite my flat.
Later in the afternoon, reports began to emerge in the local and national media and on social media of what had caused the loud bang. It was a sonic boom from a RAF Eurofighter Typhoon.
A sonic boom is created when an object moves through air faster than the speed of sound i.e. 767 mph.
RAF Eurofighter Typhoons had been scrambled from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to intercept a civilian plane that had lost communications. The RAF Eurofighter Typhoons escorted the civilian plane to Stansted Airport.
The RAF Eurofighter Typhoons reached a speed of 767 mph near Peterborough but recorded a maximum speed of 1150 mph above Ickleton just south of Cambridge.
The sonic boom was heard across several counties including Essex. Whilst I heard the sonic boom, I didn't see the RAF Eurofighter Typhoon. It was possibly a bit too quick 😀.
Sonic boom heard over eastern England as RAF escorts civilian aircraft
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