Fighter jets over St. Louis

[plutherus]

It scared the hell out of me for a second yesterday: this sudden roar and all the windows rattling. I thought it was a sudden massive thunderstorm or something, but it was just long continuous roar. The second time it happened, I went out on my balcony to take a look: a figher jet was circling around over the Mississippi. I assumed it was part of an air show for the fourth of July or something. But there were no other planes, just the one jet (or maybe two, it's hard to tell, it keeps going south behind my building where I can't see it).

Then, today, there's been one circling around for the last hour or so. I dunno if it's there as a show, or if it's security. Was there a terrorist threat against the arch or something? I'll have to ask some of my pilot friends next week. I know at least one guy was planning on flying over the Arch this weekend, so he would have been told not too if there was an issue...

Anyway, I stepped out onto my balcony and snapped a

From yesterday:



From this afternoon:



Sorry about the crappy photo: the best view was when it was heading North, as it was on my side the river then, but the problem with taking the picture then is that by the time I could hear it coming, it was already past :)