Here Comes The BOOM as The 180th Fighter Wing Flies at Night

10/21/2024

391627620_728883539283879_9113243809054541560_n — F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, conduct a routine training mission in the Buckeye Military Operating Air Space in Southern Ohio Oct. 24, 2015. The 180th FW performs daily training, conducted in realistic environments under realistic circumstances, to ensure our forces maintain the highest levels of proficiency and readiness to defend our nation as the most lethal, innovative and efficient Fighter Wing in the Total Force, both at home and abroad.

SOUTHERN OHIO – The 180th Fighter Wing has reported that they will be performing night flying starting tonight.

The F-16 can travel at more than 1,500 mph, and more than 2 times the speed of sound. At that speed, you could travel from Toledo to Washington D.C. in about 15 minutes.

Local “booms” are not uncommon when these jet fighters hit the speed of sound called a sonic boom. You may hear these overnight the next few nights and wonder what it is, but its not thunder but the sound of freedom.