Aviation: Boom Town

Some folks in Oklahoma City thought it was just one aggravation after another. One woman complained that her furniture was shrinking. Another said that her bra strap had snapped eight times in one day. A farmer north of town found his hens uninterested in such mundane matters as egg laying. And someone threatened to chuck a bomb at Mayor Jack Wilkes.

The ostensible cause of all this was eight sonic booms every 24 hours, day after day, week after week—a pattern of thunderclaps for the area's 750,000 inhabitants who have become guinea pigs...

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