We were spending a short week at Gulf Shores, AL last spring, and the six of us were all down on the beach when the SE contingent of Blue Angels out of P'cola NAS started practicing right there in front of us. Practice is better than the real show. Goes on longer.

When I was still a kid, sonic booms used to be fairly common. Never will forget the time 4 F105's came over the same beach off the Gulf at about 10k' in line formation. 4 sonic booms a quarter second apart. BAM BAM BAM BAM. My old man came out of the cabin looking for the naval cruiser firing it's main battery. Didn't believe me that it was planes until he talked to the old dude at the bait shack the next day.

The last sonic booms I heard was the double whammy from the Shuttle landing at the Cape when John Glenn rode her. BAM BAM you felt as much as you heard.