Jeez SASless, I've never seen you hold back so much!
Having lived under the flight path to a bombing range, and now under a departure/arrival path (handy for work), I'm keen to read some of the points to be raised by L and L - if indeed he hasn't given us the bird already.
Sure the bombing flight path was loud as F%$K, but i didn't let 10 seconds of thunder ruin my day.
It always makes me smile to see how companies such as the Department of Conservation (in NZ) give helicopter companies a hard time 24/7 for everything from noise to landing permits, but are the first to ask for a good deal when they need to drop rangers into the backcountry.