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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Double Boom In Ocean City

For those of you in the Ocean City area, did you just hear that double BOOM? I'm checking into it but perhaps one, (or some) of you know what it might have been. I'm guessing something at Mach II speed?

UPDATE: No emergency calls were generated from it so it must have been a jet breaking Mach speed.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Single boom here in Williamsville (between Selbyville and West Fenwick.) Very loud.

Anonymous said...

Heard a double boom last Saturday. Probably U.N. practicing.

Anonymous said...

FEMA preparing for October 1 with 380,000 troops doing maneuvers.

Anonymous said...

taco bell for lunch...sorry. my bad.

Anonymous said...

what poster 3:42 Pm said and could be them autonomous f16's called the qf-16... which is a f-16 fitted with remote controls by boeing to have a fighter jet be able to fly as if no one is inside...

Anonymous said...

lol get ya tinfoil hats ready. October 1 will be just another day, nothing special. But keep believing!

Anonymous said...

2 booms has nothing to do with Mach 1 vs Mach 2. Mach 1 is the speed of sound, anytime it is surpassed a pressure wave is created and may be heard as a single or double boom depending upon distance from aircraft.

Anonymous said...

Obama practicing shooting at the United States Citizens who oppose him.

Anonymous said...

I was having a sever head ache just before the loud explosion. Must be reading brain waves again. Soon there will be no secretes.

Anonymous said...

I heard it when I was leaving Ocean City scared the crap out of me.

Anonymous said...

(Seriously)... It happens a lot on the coast. The key word is "double boom". A plane that breaks the sound barrier emits a double boom in quick succession. You'll need to Wikipedia the explanation of that. Too complicated for me!
In the days of the SST, just about every Tuesday (for some reason, Tuesday) you would hear a sonic boom in OC if the conditions were right, as it broke the sound barrier over the Atlantic around 1:30PM.

Anonymous said...

427 GEEK
411 too funny.

Anonymous said...

They've been flying maneuvers that I've seen myself over the last week from OC to Trappe. F16's or something similar.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
2 booms has nothing to do with Mach 1 vs Mach 2. Mach 1 is the speed of sound, anytime it is surpassed a pressure wave is created and may be heard as a single or double boom depending upon distance from aircraft.

September 27, 2013 at 4:27 PM

I don't know what you're trying to say, and I don't think you do either. You contradicted yourself.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
lol get ya tinfoil hats ready. October 1 will be just another day, nothing special. But keep believing!

September 27, 2013 at 4:23 PM

Chuck Cook is that you again?

Anonymous said...

The key word is "double boom"

Um, isn't that TWO words? lol