The experience from the flightline is much more visceral, I bet your kids loved it. The Thunder Birds are cool but we call them the “Thunder Chickens” because whenever we’ve met their ground crews they’ve been arrogant little…^#@$#s, but still cool to watch. Best or I should say craziest show I’ve ever seen was the Tricolour Arrow. Those guys were nuts.

I agree with you about the sound. Those engines in those little “lawn darts” they fly have a much higher piercing sound to them. For shear noise nothing I’ve heard beats an F4 Phantom. Though my ex-wife got to see a space shuttle launch and said it was quite deafening.

The F22 is very cool. My first job here was doing the refueling support for the F22 flight test program and got to go along on several missions.

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