What the?  What's that noise shaking my house...oh, it's the end of August, right? Must be the test run for the annual Chicago Air & Water Show.  I've always loved this day, when F-14's, F-16's and other military jets cruise around downtown Chicago (spending precious tax dollars on such spectacles is always a treat, especially considering the $7 trillion National Debt!) 

 

I took a lunch time bike ride down the lake front and admired the F-14 as it cruised overhead, flying in a tight loop with a 1930's era prop fighter.  Regardless of your politics, when you see a machine as incredible as a modern fighter plane fly by, it is hard to have anything but admiration for it.  Seeing those two planes next to each other, I was pretty impressed by the state of aviation advancement in what was probably only about 40 years of development.  These machines are incredible, indeed.