Sonic Booms: Sound of Freedom or Nuisance?

Posted by Jim Spence on Monday, February 20, 2012
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KRQE-TV - Some New Mexico residents who live along flight paths of supersonic fighter jets from the Holloman Air Force Base are complaining about noise loud enough to set off car alarms. The base squadron flies the Air Force's fastest fighter plane, the F-22 Raptor. The plane flies at supersonic speeds, creating a sonic boom that is rattling residents up to 50 miles from the southern New Mexico base. F-22 pilot Cmdr. Robert Teschner says he understands the noise issue since his family lives in downtown Alamogordo. But he says the daily training is necessary to keep pilots ready at a moment's notice. Read full story here: News New Mexico
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Anonymous said...

Why not just stop having wars and park the F-22's? Everybody wins...think about it... really think about it...stop justifying there existence and they will go away.

February 20, 2012 at 12:37 PM

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