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I don't know where you were but my experience is different. I grew up in Southern California equidistant from LA and Edwards AFB. In the 60's and 70's I definit
by cardiffspaceman 10y ago
I don't know where you were but my experience is different. I grew up in Southern California equidistant from LA and Edwards AFB. In the 60's and 70's I definitely heard sonic booms. No one was taking off near us so they weren't damaging to property or people, as people expected the SST might be.
- hollerith 10y agoInteresting. Would call where you grew sparely populated? How about extremely sparsely populated. >I don't know where you were Massachusetts, South Florida, other places east of the Mississippi.
- cardiffspaceman 10y agoThe area is now called Santa Clarita, California. The area was then a clump of bedroom communities that may have totaled about 50 thousand people. Some farmland was still cultivated then (the aroma of the onion harvest is a childhood memory), sheep were even grazed. But there were tracts of houses and the tracts were already closely spaced enough to support three significant high schools. Even from a jet you should have known you were flying over a populated area by looking out the window.
- hollerith 10y agoThanks. Roughly how many sonic booms did you hear during your time there?
- cardiffspaceman 10y agoMy personal recollection is, there were two or more a year. There may have been less in the seventies. In any case more frequent than the minor earthquakes one endures everywhere in California. I was there from age 3 to age 18.