aviatoreb Posted August 12, 2020 Report Posted August 12, 2020 SOMEONE was misbehaving. But it wasn't me. My Mooney Rocket is very very fast, but nonetheless I deny this was me. I didn't break any windows. (Tupper Lake is maybe 7 min flight from here). (well 7 min when I am not supersonic). Whose jet is it anyway? Boom was likely jet, says airspace manager https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2020/08/whose-jet-is-it-anyway/ 1 Quote
Stephen Posted August 12, 2020 Report Posted August 12, 2020 Sounds like any Tuesday around my house. Might be the Boeing test pilots occasionally get a bit too hot when testing out the new F18s from the STL factory... Quote
StevenL757 Posted August 12, 2020 Report Posted August 12, 2020 Ok. Fine. I'll admit...it was me. I just got through polishing my TKS panels with WD40 and got a little overzealous with the power settings. 1 2 1 Quote
Air pirate Posted August 12, 2020 Report Posted August 12, 2020 One the guys driving a Viper did that at Reno a few years back at a low level pass awesome ! 1 Quote
cferr59 Posted August 12, 2020 Report Posted August 12, 2020 I was probably my C. I have all the speed mods. 1 5 Quote
Mcstealth Posted August 13, 2020 Report Posted August 13, 2020 (edited) A boom at 25000 does not rattle windows to my knowledge. So it had to be @aviatoreb!!!!!! Edited August 13, 2020 by Mcstealth 2 Quote
aviatoreb Posted August 13, 2020 Author Report Posted August 13, 2020 11 hours ago, Mcstealth said: A boom at 25000 does not rattle windows to my knowledge. So it had to be @aviatoreb!!!!!! Elementary my dead Watson. Except, can you prove that I wasn't at 25,000 ft during the day of the incident in question? Quote
Mcstealth Posted August 13, 2020 Report Posted August 13, 2020 Allegedly, @aviatoreb, broke the sound barrier............ 1 Quote
Stephen Posted August 13, 2020 Report Posted August 13, 2020 Maybe it was @Ragsf15e working his side hustle .... I think his type specifically specializes in low & fast... go mudhens! 1 Quote
aviatoreb Posted August 13, 2020 Author Report Posted August 13, 2020 2 hours ago, Mcstealth said: Allegedly, @aviatoreb, broke the sound barrier............ I do not recall. Quote
Ragsf15e Posted August 13, 2020 Report Posted August 13, 2020 I have a little experience in this area... Couple friends in my first squadron got to fly a jet from idaho to the Depot in GA. Since it was going to depot, maintenance took everything external off - bomb racks, missile rails, conformal fuel tanks, etc. It had a drag index of “zero” which is as low as you can get an F-15E. So these two (pilot&wso) lieutenants planned to try for mach two which was near impossible in our normal config. See, back then there was an exception that allowed supersonic above like 35,000’ or so. Or at least that was their story. We knew the USAF rules but the FAA ones were always hazy. Anyway, they stopped for gas in St Louis, climbed directly to 45,000 and left full afterburner. They also had a reasonable tailwind going East. So somewhere around 1.95 mach the wso looked down and realized that something like 20nm/min was gonna require an early descent. Right about then ATC realized that too and told them to start down immediately. Being Lieutenants, they did. Unfortunately, the airflow at mach 2 is kinda wild and the engines have a self protect feature that won’t roll them back below mil power (full power without afterburner) at that airspeed. And the speedbrake won’t extend above 400kts either. So they blasted over greater Atlanta about 22,000’, descending, mil power, no drag, mach 1.2, and hair/helmets on fire. It definitely made the paper. The pilot earned his callsign from it... “Sherman”... as in the general who blazed a path through Georgia. 3 2 4 Quote
Yooper Rocketman Posted August 14, 2020 Report Posted August 14, 2020 On 8/12/2020 at 2:24 PM, aviatoreb said: SOMEONE was misbehaving. But it wasn't me. My Mooney Rocket is very very fast, but nonetheless I deny this was me. I didn't break any windows. (Tupper Lake is maybe 7 min flight from here). (well 7 min when I am not supersonic). Whose jet is it anyway? Boom was likely jet, says airspace manager https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2020/08/whose-jet-is-it-anyway/ And you said you wanted to ride in my Lancair but just can never find the time to stop by? That was just a teaser Erik !! Tom 1 1 Quote
jlunseth Posted August 14, 2020 Report Posted August 14, 2020 On 8/12/2020 at 4:27 PM, StevenL757 said: Ok. Fine. I'll admit...it was me. I just got through polishing my TKS panels with WD40 and got a little overzealous with the power settings. No, I am Spartacus. It was me. 2 1 Quote
aviatoreb Posted August 14, 2020 Author Report Posted August 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Yooper Rocketman said: And you said you wanted to ride in my Lancair but just can never find the time to stop by? That was just a teaser Erik !! Tom Your plane doesn't break the sound barrier does it? Quote
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