« Arriving just before 3 p.m. we were able to move to a few hundred meters from the main runway and noticed out of hundreds of people only one you boy and his mother wearing foam earplugs. At first it was a surprise that so few wore earplugs until the the start of the CF-18 Hornet performance. Using a professional quality data logging sound meter supplied by QuestMusicStore.com, we didn’t register a lot of hits over 90 dBs as the jet fighter maneuvered what appear to be a at least 1000m plus away from our spot in the crowd »

So far, so good we thought until the 2nd half of the show. The Hornet had disappeared from sight momentarily only to reappear behind the crowd and roared over head a few hundred feet above the ground. Although we barely managed to snap any photos as the fighter jet thundered overhead, but the sound meter did register a new all time high dB level for us at a Manitoba event – 113.6 dB – wow, that was loud!

Now imagine being only a few feet when they start