F-15s Scrambled + Sonic Booms over Washington.

[djnocturnal]

F-15 fighter jets scrambled from Portland to deal with an unknown aircraft that had entered restricted air space over Western Washington caused two sonic booms that were heard across a wide swath of the region, the FAA reported Tuesday.

Several calls from worried residents from Olympia to Seattle flooded emergency dispatchers and the KOMO Newsroom reporting two distinct explosions that rattled windows and shook homes.

The FAA had restricted a large area to aircraft over Seattle due to President Obama's visit.

A spokesman with the Oregon Air National Guard said two F-15s from their 142nd Fighter Wing were scrambled on a "real world mission" from their base at Portland International Airport but could not elaborate on what the mission entailed

[djnocturnal]

seems silly after I just read the whole story....
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch ... mbled.html

[MIKE JG]

Sweet, breaking windows for a radar target that was probably indicating a ground speed of about 120kts...... Fun for the fighter pilots I suppose.

[Jumpshot724]

Sweet, breaking windows for a radar target that was probably indicating a ground speed of about 120kts...... Fun for the fighter pilots I suppose.

Just like how we are with the fire department. The call may be something very minor/not time sensitive, but ya just gotta use that siren/horn/flashing lights to their full potential

[lee100359]

They shaked my house good, now people in the northwest know what a real sonic boom sounds like, last weekend at the annual Blue Angles show, some people thought that one of the planes cause a sonic boom, they didn't of course, just a little loud due to the low show they performed cause a cloud cover.

[Joecoastie]

Myself and plenty of other GA pilots don't think much of the FAA's draconian TFR restrictions to "protect the president". Ought to be a "TPR" to protect us from him.

[kungfuman]

Well, I suppose he's only the leader of the most powerful state on planet Earth...

[james84]

It was me flying around the world with my stealth aircraft...