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Up until the 1980’s Paine Field in Everett hosted air shows with the Blue Angels, Snowbirds etc.

I was working in a facility off site to the NE of the factory and word spread via phone calls that an SR 71 was going to make a pass or two- everyone including the bosses stopped working and went outside. We heard it well before it ripped by at less than a thousand feet above us.
It got quiet again but in a couple minutes it was making much more noise, this time as it flew just above the factory the pilot pointed straight up, rolled on the throttles and wagged the wings a couple times before completely disappearing from sight accompanied by a gut shaking roar.

To this day that’s the most impressive thing I’ve ever witnessed.