The big “boom” shook the windows and surprised many people, especially in Bergerac, Creysse, Saint-Sauveur and Mouleydier this Tuesday, November 5 around 11 a.m. And when we live near the Eurenco powder mills, inevitably, many people have asked themselves the question of where the noise was coming from. The firefighters have no intervention in the area at that time.
On the other hand, the Air and Space Force confirms France Blue Périgord thata fighter plane broke the sound barrier around 11 a.m. in the area.
A Rafale on exercise in the area
According to the Air Force, a Rafale from Mont-de-Marsan air base 118 was actually on a training flight on a corridor between Bordeaux and Brivewith the mission of exceeding 1,357 km/h, the speed that triggers the supersonic boom. The training was scheduled so that the air axis would be freed by civil planes.
Fighter jets regularly train to break the sound barrier over the sea, but they also have to do it regularly over land because it is technically different. The corridor between Bordeaux and Brive is one of the chosen training zonesbecause the population density there is lower than elsewhere.
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