The Air Force Thunderbirds are in town. Yesterday we were treated to the wonderful noise as they take off and head to the air show in the big city 20-miles away. The coolest part, though, is our deck is almost directly inline with their landing pattern. Noise, smoke, noise, smoke, noise, smoke, etc. as all six pass overhead. If they were any lower it'd be possible to read the writing on the access panels. Today and tomorrow should be even noisier!
Even Duke gets excited, and no doubt the pilots can hear his greetings.
Working on the flightline, the arm, and de-arm ends of the runway with J-57 and J-79 engines running left me with moderate to severe hearing loss. But what a way for it to go!
The irony is, now I can turn up my hearing aids and really enjoy the noise.