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Hank©[_3_]

On 6/18/2013 11:48 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:56:28 -0400, wrote:

We could get a free air show from the military pilots who used the
runway for practice "touch and goes" and other tricks.
They also did low passes at high speed over the beach areas. Sonic
booms were regular occurrences as they cranked it up to get back to
Pensacola, Eglin or Tyndall by dinner time.
Now that the RSW pattern is full most of the day, we don't see them
much anymore.

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There are a lot of military fighter jets flying out of the Key West
area. They do many low altitude pusuit maneuvers that are quite
dramatic to watch.

We docked our yacht at Bluewater Key for a week and were visited by
those guys about twice a day. The appeared to be louder than the F18s
the Angels fly. The first run, of a session, over our little peninsula
was quite a surprise. Much like when one of the Angels breaks of and
sneaks up on the audience from the rear at 100 ft.