"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Ed Majden" wrote in message
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"Glenfiddich"
The V-2 certainly did produce a sonic boom - but audible
AFTER the impact. The warhead arrived ahead of its sound...

What you say is of course true at the impact site. I was wondering
if
a
sonic boom was heard along the trajectory, long before impact. Perhaps
the
V2 would be too high for the sound to be propagated down to the ground.
Meteoroid sonic booms are generally heard below an altitude of 30 km but
more likely at lower altitudes. From what I have read the V2 reached an
altitude of around 60 miles but I'm not sure what the flight trajectory
altitude would be several minutes before the impact area. Any idea?


From eye witness reports there seems to have been no warning.
Indeed early incidents were put down to sabotage or gas explosions

Keith

I was part of a convoy of AVF heading for the docks at Tilbury in late "44,
when we experiecend this incredibly loud explosion about a 1/4 of a mile
away followed shortly after by a sound like a jet going by (at that time I
used the expression of an express train going by !! :-)) ) This was one of
the first V2 to land in Britain, at the time we were not sure what the hell
had landed !!.

I have heard that of the 5000 that were launched only 1100 reached the UK
with a loss of 2724 lives.

Regards, BMC