RAF Typhoons cause sonic boom over land to intercept cargo plane

"Leon711" (leon711) 10/30/2014 at 10:13 • Filed to: Typhoon, sonic boom, supersonic

0

10

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Yesterday a loud sonic boom was heard of large areas of the UK as a pair of Typhoons were authorised to go supersonic for the 150 mile journey to intercept a Latvian cargo plane that was unresponsive to ATC. This caused a large volume of calls to authorities from concerned citizens but was confirmed a few hours later to be an intercept by the RAF.

The Cargo plane was escorted to Stansted airport and investigated.

Bricks > Leon711 10/30/2014 at 10:15

1

the latvians were too drunk to notice, jeez.

Rock Bottom > Leon711 10/30/2014 at 10:21

4

Latvians of had no airplane. Is all joke. Was hallucinate in gulag where politburo sent them with no potato.

Soon will die of malnoorish and cold.

Leon711 > Rock Bottom 10/30/2014 at 10:22

1

nyet, just excuse for capitalist to opress their people with sonic boom.

Cé hé sin > Rock Bottom 10/30/2014 at 10:27

0

Actually a Russian plane?

Rock Bottom > Cé hé sin 10/30/2014 at 10:29

0

Russian trick to get Latvia in trouble!

Rock Bottom > Leon711 10/30/2014 at 10:29

0

AAHAAhahaaahaa!!

Taylor Hedgie > Leon711 10/30/2014 at 10:30

0

Welp, when ya' gotta go, ya gotta go.

Leon711 > Cé hé sin 10/30/2014 at 10:31

0

Antonov so technically ukrainian made, operated by latvians to transport car factory stuff from italy to birmingham.

ranwhenparked > Leon711 10/30/2014 at 17:52

0

Sloppy reporting by the BBC, not only was the An-24 not made in Russia, it was built back when Russia and Ukraine were both part of the Soviet Union.

Leon711 > ranwhenparked 10/30/2014 at 18:04

1

oh I know, but you can't expect all journos/interns to be up on plane knowledge. I used this story as a ruse to post a pic of Typhoons.

whoops, did it again.

with bonus Spitfire.