I lived at Subic Bay
On Sunday mornings at about 7:00, the A-7’s I think, would take off to rejoin their carrier at sea
they would get off the Cubi Point runway to right above my house and turn vertical with full power, zooming straight up. The house shook from the mighty blasts of power. The story was it was illegal, but hey....... they were going back to Vietnam
Hey! I lived at Subic Bay, too! I spent a lot of time at the beaches near Cubi Point...:) I used to walk around on the ramp above the beach where the planes would all be tied down (around 1969) sure couldn’t do that now! I tried to walk across the runway to get to the beach on the other side and got busted...
I have a cool story about an F8 Crusader (When I was a kid, I would sometimes see Crusaders and Corsairs parked near each other, and I thought they were different variants of the same plane! (in a weird way...they were)