Anyone else get boomed today?

[Longnightmoon]

Lunchtime trying to search out a bag of pasta. The actual wall of my house shook, I was holding the handle of the kitchen cupboard, and I felt it ripple. - and my first thought was Montgomery!

But it was just a typhoon fighter jet intercepting a passenger flight who's radio broke.

I live under the flight path near Stansted Airport, it’s not unusual to get knocked over by the sonic booms.

newer residents are often frightened out of their wits by them

Thank you very much for answering my question @Longnightmoon , that's very interesting.
I've read many books on world War II and watched many documentaries but I can't recall seeing reference to a ship by that name having been sunk off the coast of Kent.
That would be pretty terrifying knowing that you had an alarm for such a devastating event, however better to have it than not of course!

I thought Montgomery (you’ve spelled it a few ways - which is correct?) was to do with General Montgomery and the war because of VJ Day and you were possibly using it like a swear word.

I was just confused and if I’d googled “Montgomery” which was all you said, I’d have got every single famous person called
Montgomery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery

Yes but you knew what to google. I didn’t.

I’ve just added an image of my Google search. It’ll take a minute to come up I think.

Thank you @Longnightmoon for posting the Wikipedia link about the SS Richard Montgomery.

😲 I didn't know this. Thank you, that is fascinating

Oh yeah, very true. They do fly very fast, (1500 to 1800mph some of them,) so it may have been heard 150 miles away, just a few minutes later if it was coming my way!

I thought people were talking about Montgomery in mid Wales, and that's not a million miles from me! Then again, even if it's 150 miles away, that's not terribly far when a jet is travelling 1500 to 1800pmh! As I said, it would be at Kent one minute, then over me within a few minutes.

You're coming across as very churlish in the face of learning something new and fascinating. Why is that?

😳 isn't that something! Now that's a story by itself!

Probably because I’m autistic.

im not that fascinated and googling Montgomery didn’t get me anything about the ship.

Gutted. I'd love to hear a sonic boom 💥

Okay, you've made your point. We all get it. You didn't know what she meant but do you really have to keep banging on about it?

Yes, I heard it yesterday. I thought it was thunder but it was really out of the blue.

We had it yesterday in Cambridgeshire. Went running upstairs to figure out what had fallen/caved in.

I've never heard of anyone getting knocked over by a sonic boom. Surprised by them , yes.
I grew up in the 70s hearing the sonic boom from Concorde as it flew towards the west coast of the UK. We lived about half a mile from the runway at Filton where it was built and the test flights were done. It was the only plane apart from the Red Arrows that made the windows rattle.
Locally we have the Severnside alarm. It would be set off if there was a chemical escape or similar from one of the industries on the English side of the river Severn in the Avonmouth area.

There was a drama a few years ago that began with the Montgomery exploding and killing many people. It was filmed on the Lancashire coast though, not Kent for some reason, and had Robert Carlyle in it. It was interesting to hear it was based on fact (well the sunken ship bit, hopefully the explosion bit won't ever become fact).

Sadly, no boom for me today

Had this years ago. Thought it was a gas explosion elsewhere in the city. Turned out fighter jets going through speed of sound to intercept a passenger plane that had gone off course.

I have! I was on holiday in Devon when this happened. Loads of people sat having ice cream and whatever at a cafe on top of a cliff when two scrambled jets hit the sound barrier and it was so close people did actually get knocked off their chairs/feet. Never experience anything like it before or since. Nor heard anything like it in terms of proximity, and I don’t live all that far from Essex where it’s fairly regular! Absolutely shocking in the literal sense!

I'm not far from you OP and I didn't hear it. But I did know what you meant by Montgomery!

I've aways thought a Montgomery drill a bit pointless - if it goes, no-one will have time to get under a desk.

Yes. KENT. 11:45 great boom. Weird. I thought it might be an issue at the local factory. But clearly this jet.

I’ve never heard of it and live SE.

what the fisherman’s’ nationality got to do with it?