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I was 15 years old in 1962 and had been attending air shows at Homestead since 1957 or 1958. The 1962 Open House and Air Show at Homestead AFB was the first year that I had a camera so in 2012 it will mark a 50-year span in air show photos from Homestead. The most impressive thing I remember was standing along the packed crowd line watching two or three F-104 Starfighters fly from the southwest to the northeast over the runway at maybe 500 feet or less. Each one would go by in total silence and about five seconds later an earth-shattering loud BOOM would hit us scaring the hell out of everyone after the first F-104 went by. How long has it been since aircraft stopped breaking the sound barrier at air shows?
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