Far and away the LOUDEST plane that used to take off and land at Oceana when I was a lad.
We didn’t even need to look up in the sky to identify one of those.
>>Far and away the LOUDEST plane that used to take off and land at Oceana when I was a lad.<<
True that! First two I ever saw was at MCAS Beaufort. Had to work on a Saturday morning (rare), so naturally we were all hungover. Walking down to the flight line, two of the bricks taxied past us and hit the afterburners. Presto, four Marines on the deck holding their ears and screaming.
My squadron, VMF(AW)-122, had the last of the gunfighters - F8U-2NE.