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Did anybody else hear it today, sounded really loud and the house shuck

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The neighbours all come out and the horses in field were galloping around.

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where was that?
i heard 3 consecutive bangs one night just before xmas with the house shaking and never did find out what that was.

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In bidston, would love to know what it wad

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i heard nothing in tranmere (@ work) might have been a sonic boom from a training fighter jet? or something mysterious on bidston hill, i know that place is a bit mysterious...

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Lol, one of my dogs is afraid on bonfire night and she must of thought it was that cos she hasnt shut up since, every sound she is barking!

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I work on the Tarran Estate and we heard it quite clearly. It shook the roof of the building and all the office staff came out to see what it was, thinking it came from our premises. It sounded to me like it came from out to sea towards the Meols area. No idea what it was and I can't find any info on the web.

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Probably the bloody RAF playing war games. A double bang would indicate a sonic boom. Its probable that they dropped a bomb or something to practice doing it I expect.

Most days a jet goes tearing down the river for no apparent reason. It terrifies our dog, irritates everyone and as far as I can see serves no useful purpose whatsoever except to remind us of the vast expense of these things.

It's not as if Putin is very likely to establish a beachead in Tranmere with the intention of annexing the wirral, but why send a bloody expensive jet at 500mph to check that he hasn't anyway?

I can assure the RAF that we'll ring them if anyone attempts an invasion. No need for any jets until they do, thanks.

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Originally Posted by Excoriator
Most days a jet goes tearing down the river for no apparent reason.

1) It goes along the Mersey because if anything went wrong over land the jet would crash into buildings rather than water

2) it's flying to the Irish sea to perform tests and training.

3) it stays lower than you may expect to save fuel climbing altitude and it could go a lot faster but again fuel and loud noise would have people complaining.

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Originally Posted by xxwildspiritxx
Did anybody else hear it today, sounded really loud and the house shuck


Posted 8th May 2012 12:20pm

Original post is over 2 years old.

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wow, it seems I accidentally resurrected this post after googling "loud bang Wirral". I was at work on Thursday 5th June and heard a massive bang as I walked across the factory to speak to a colleague. The bang sounded quite far away, possibly out to sea. It shook the roof of the factory and caused a load of dust to fall from the office ceiling. Some of the office staff came out including all of our top brass to see what was going on as they thought one of the shop floor staff had blown something up or injured themselves.
I spotted a right noisey b*****d jet flying over a while later, which I thought at first was a Harrier, but might have been a Tornado with its wings swept back flying away from me towards Liverpool.
However, I was always under the impression that a sonic boom is only audible from behind the jet and only at close range.

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Sorry mate, it was me. I dropped my wallet.


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