Scott, I'm the same distance off the approach end :-) Saw the same
airplane, I think. I took it for an F-15. Seen several T-37s
overhead lately, too, plus a pair of T-38s a week or two ago. A year
or two back when the BUFF came to town it came in right over the
house. We were outside; my wife looked up and said, "I'm sure glad
that's on OUR side!"

Saw a Vulcan at an airshow some years back - it was making its
farewell tour before being retired. I can understand why the Falkland
sheep were scared out of their coats! Like a flock of banshees.

My vote for best loud airplane sound, though, would have to go to the
B-36. Rent the Jimmy Stewart classic, "Strategic Air Command" and
turn up the surround-sound.... Folks who heard them fly over the
Great Plains say that you would hear that drone for hours as that
six-ply contrail slowly crossed from horizon to horizon.

The sound of freedom indeed!

Corrie

(Scott Lowrey) wrote in message . com...
I reside about 6 miles off the departure end of MSP runway 12, so I'm
used to hearing a lot of jet traffic. I've only lived here for 6
months but I quickly adjusted to the noise. It's acutally not that
bad, excepting the venerable DC-9.

Today, though, what looked like an F-18 flew over. Wow. I haven't
seen too many fighters in my life (still have yet to see a "real" air
show). That thing peeled off to the southeast with a thunder that
even the DC-9 in full song can't match.

She was probably climbing through 3 or 4 thousand when I looked up.
Are afterburners used during departure? If not, I can't imagine what
_that_ sounds like.

-Scott