On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:07:30 +0100, F wrote:

Not sure if it still does, but a Tornado used to show at the British
Grand Prix at Silverstone. The near supersonic level flight in towards
the track, then the almost instantaneous transition to vertical,
followed by it climbing at an amazing rate to almost out-of-sight was
awe inspiring and deafening. It was so loud that car alarms across the
car parks went off in unison!

I remember standing in a Heathrow hotel carpark in the early '90s, as an
Aeroflot plane took off. That set all the car alarms off, too, with a
stink of unburned fuel in it's wake.

But I think that was sheer sheddiness rather than sheer power.