I used to commute down the ‘old’ 5 Freeway, past the now closed El Toro U.S.M.C. Air Station. Even though I knew they were coming, and I love the heck out of our Marines, the noise that a pair of FA-18’s made, just overhead, would scare the life out of me.
Back in the 60s I commuted down Texas 3 (Old Galveston Road) to my job at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Depending on the wind, the road was at the end of the take-off run for the F105s based at Ellington. They weren’t known as Thunderchiefs for nothing.