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Helicopters beat low over Havana, and Russian-built MIG-19 sweptwing jets sent sonic booms thundering down the capital's seafront Malecon Drive. In every town along the 760-mile length of Cuba, the speechmakers mounted their platforms to trumpet victory to the assembled populace. The first anniversary of Fidel Castro's triumph over the haphazard U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion was at hand, and May Day lay just ahead. It was time to celebrate in Communist Cuba...
...Navy's prize aircraft were on display: Phantom interceptors. Vigilante and Skyhawk attack bombers and Crusader fighters screamed overhead, booming in salute as they cracked the sonic barrier, hurling bombs neatly and precisely between the twin wakes of Enterprise and Forrestal...
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...people believe something new is happening. The only thing that happened is that they opened their windows." Even with the windows closed the year-round, the noise and nerve-numbing will continue-and get worse with the advent of supersonic commercial traffic. Nothing can be done to stop a sonic boom,* though the sound can be attenuated somewhat by flying at altitudes higher than...
Also smashed: countless windows and bric-a-brac, shattered by the continuous sonic boom that the plane created. One Air Force officer had predicted before the flight: "This ought to be good for an air speed of 1,300 m.p.h. and a ground speed of 13,000 broken windows...