Title: Want to See a Fighter Jet Fly Low and Fast? Here Are Some Prime Viewing Spots  | Daily Planet   | Air & Space Magazine
Headings: Want to See a Fighter Jet Fly Low and Fast? Here Are Some Prime Viewing Spots
Want to See a Fighter Jet Fly Low and Fast? Here Are Some Prime Viewing Spots
Try Death Valley, or the famous “Mach Loop” in Wales.
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Content: As kids, we could recognize the plane by the jet noise. The "bad boys" were the F-101 Voodoo and the F-104 Starfighter. Booms were a daily occurence, windows went monthly, and we lost at least one flight crew a year. My uncle was ATC controller when a 101 disappeared from the screen. He had just cleared the plane from tower control. It turned out the pilot hit "full power-afterburner" too fast. The plane flipped over and dove into the Panhandle swamp. The Voodoo went on to fly photo-recon in Viet Nam. 1500mph at 50', flying "straight and level"--followed by a vertical climb to 25K ft. The pilots who flew it called it . "