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I was putting groceries in my car this past Sunday, when I witnessed something , that I believe should not have happened.
I live near an airport, not a huge airport, but fairly large, and I am directly in the flight path of outgoing and incoming planes.
The grocery store is in close proximity to the airport also, being almost at the end of the runway. I heard, before I saw, what sounded like a jet, F-18 or F-16 taking off, when I looked up as the "plane" crested the grocery store, I was absolutely flabbergasted to see, not one, but two jets, wing tip to wing tip, in what appeared to be a race.
I have a camera in my purse, but to tell you the truth, I was almost in a state of shock, at what I was seeing, and did not react fast enough to get the camera.
I watched as they continued to stay wing tip to wing tip until they do the arc to go out over the ocean.
It is quite stressful, living this close to an airport, because most of us know, it is not a matter of if, only a matter of when, something major is going to happen. Mainly because there is no margin for error left to the pilot, because of the length of the runways, for one thing.
These two jets were military, I'm sure, and it was confirmed that two F-18's, did indeed take off from that airport at the same time. But no further information was given.
If something had have happened, the pilots of those aircraft, could eject, landing safely most likely, whereas , falling debris would have claimed lives.
I may be ignorant of the fact, of jets such as this taking off this way on a regular basis, but it is the first time I had witnessed it.
I immediately came home and emailed a local paper, and asked them to contact someone and tell the military if they want to play games, to do it out over the desert, and not in a populated area, such as this.
am I wrong, and do jets normally take off in this manner?

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