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I also have gotten in trouble around the local airport. My son loves to go sit out at the end of the runway (pulled off the side of the road, nowhere near the airport fence). One night a local cop came up behind us. He said it was "technically illegal", but didn't make us move. Turns out he was a former Marine, and after talking to my son about the C-130's (my son's favorite, anytime we see them doing "touch-and-go's", he insists that we go to the airport and watch), he gave us a warning. I guess you aren't supposed to pull off the road unless it is an emergency. After all, it can't be because we are "in the flight path" as my dad suggested, because there is a Wal-Mart supercenter just behind where we park, and several motels and restaurants, and a bunch of apartments and stores off the other end of the runway. Heaven help folks if they ever have a crash out there!
Toaster, last summer the airport (which is home to the local Air National Guard) had 4 B1-b Lancers fly in for a couple of days. Talk about LOUD! They put everything else to shame, none of the passenger jets even came close (of course, this is a regional airport, biggest thing we get is a 707) and neither did the F4's or F16's that we usually get.
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