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Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:41 pm
by Queeg
Anyone in the midlands hear a loud bang over Coventry, it seems to have been heard all over the city, someone thinks sound barrier going?
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Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:43 pm
by RichC
Possibly two Typhoons on QRA.......
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:50 pm
by 22A
We heard two loud bangs at Peterborough, 50 miles from Coventry. They were thunderclaps.
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:52 pm
by RichC
This bang is being reported all over the Midlands and as far south as Swindon. See the QRA thread in the Heads Up Section
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:40 pm
by big john
MOD says it was a typhoon from BBC News
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:41 pm
by GaryS
Heard it here in swindon,just as I got in from work.
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 6:58 pm
by Richard B
Windows nearly came in here at Bulkington.
Me Chickens have stopped laying
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:04 pm
by quid21
De ja vu!
We heard exactly the same thing last year which turned out to be two typhoons on a QRA intercepting an airliner and thought it was either an earthquake, plane crash, oil tanker explosion etc but ours didn't make the national media!
It's an incredible bang, when we heard ours last year all the pheasants in the wood across the road started chirping on an otherwise deathly silent night! Very spooky! And quite frightening!
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:25 pm
by nickowen
Didn't hear a thing here in Derbyshire, as we were in the middle of a colossal thunderstorm at that time.
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:01 pm
by gixrgill
I witnessed the first of the QRA typhoons departing at coningsby just prior to that incident and the first one was really shifting
full burners and was really going for it! So if the sound barrier went it doesnt suprise me
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:01 am
by Richard B
shook Lutterworth also. all talking about the Bang when I went into work last night.
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:06 am
by NSNO
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:12 am
by pikey01
Ah the general public at large, bless them!
what bothers me more was we missed it as we were driving to Northolt. Apparently it was quite loud over Brize
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:20 am
by POL
Wonder why the sudden change by the MOD to allow supersonic over land. Never used to be the case when aircraft were scrambled for QRA!
As for the helicopter being on a 7500 squawk, surely the controlling authority would have had it identified initially and observed its routing, so it was hardly "unknown" as some media outlets are saying!
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:20 am
by SteveS
Ah, of course - aliens!
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:30 am
by sjnovis
Heard this in Swindon, It was surprisingly loud, I didn’t think sonic boom at the time, didn't hear any fast jets. I went out side expecting to see a car wrapped around a tree or something similar.
A couple of people at work are not buying the QRA story, they believe its a cover up for Fracking
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17448428 
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:48 am
by pikey01
ChrisGlobe wrote:Wonder why the sudden change by the MOD to allow supersonic over land. Never used to be the case when aircraft were scrambled for QRA!
One word Christopher: Olympics!
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:52 am
by Jonay
Thunder right over your head kind of lound or louder?
Would love to hear one!
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:32 pm
by LightningGoose
Who else couldn't get onto FC and other UK websites after the event?
Re: Loud bang over Coventry at 18,20 hrs
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:50 pm
by stealth1234
LightningGoose wrote:Who else couldn't get onto FC and other UK websites after the event?
Me