Odd isn't it, used to be a Seneca nearby and I used to lie in bed about midnight and hear it going through it's mag checks before departing to Dublin, you would sometimes hear it cough and know I had work in the morning, they could never figure out how I knew it was U/S.. It was a comforting noise and when it stopped I missed it to.
The Ten Dulles flights were the memorable ones for me as they were always that bit heavier so rotated that much later and virtually opposite my window, rattling them as it went by, followed as you say by the crackle and as you say, in its way that too was soothing.
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Last edited by NutLoose; 30th Sep 2013 at 22:09.