Tell me about it, one time a 757/767 was coming in. I live in a flight path, and I remember one gunned its engines so loud, it sent almost all of my 8 cats running with the exception of my calico cat, Pansy, who will be 19 next year, she fears nothing. B-)
I've had a passing interest in aviation, got some good pics of the Thunderbirds this year at the airshow. I didn;t go this time, I spent it with my 90 year old grandmother but living in the flight path and having a police scanner that gets military frequencies, that does have its advantages.
I know a C-17 pilot and he did let me sit in hre pilot's seat of a C-17 once. He let me play with the radio, I tuned in the ball game on KDKA-AM and some amateur radio on 10 meters (28,000 to 29,700 kc, I'm a ham radio operator). I would have loved to fire that puppy up since I have 10 meter privileges as a Technician plus (I have limited HF privs but all VHF/UHF and above and know 5 WPM morse code) but I did not. I did put my hand og the joystick and throttles and said, "I'm flying this 'mofo' to Florida!" and the plane shook. I thought, "uh oh, you did it, Chuck, 200 million down the toilet and you with it." B-) Actually, the plane was locked to where no one can do anything and it was people jumping on and off it, but for a sec, I did have a fear of God in me. From flying Microsoft "Flight Simulator '83" on my Apple quite a bit, maybe taking off wouldn't be too hard but the landing, well. B-D
Here's one I took of the Thunderbirds.