For people in the DC area there's a spit of land across from the end of one of the runways that has a parking lot that holds maybe 20 cars... The only thing separating that spit of land is about 75 feet of water... On any given night there are a dozen or so cars that park there and folks set up folding chairs and just enjoy the planes taking off and landing... On a good night when the wind blows up the Potomac River they bring the planes in from the west... That means they are landing over you and at that point they are less than 100 feet above you... Real cool... Kinda hairy for the pilots because it means that their approach has them lining up some 50 miles west and snaking down the Potomac to cut down on noise below...

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