I grew up not far from Nellis Airforce Base and as a kid we loved to watch the jets flying over. Back then they would break the sound barrier and the cracking sound would make us all stop what we were doing followed by "that was so cool."

We even had to replace a window once. Never considered calling the base and complaining, instead dad just had it replaced with a plexi-glass type of window.

The way I see it is I had a front row seat to the Thunderbirds practicing almost everyday, then when they had the show we just sat on the back wall and watched the show. Now we take the kids to the base and make a day of it when they put on the air show.

Yeah, there are people complaining about the noise, these are newbies to our city and they complain about everything. There is a big controversy now about the small airport because we had 2 plane crashes into houses in the last month. Yes that is very bad but when I moved to my house I knew the local airport was there and did not buy the cheaper house because it was cheaper for a reason.

A little off topic of the planes--people bought houses by the pig farm that has been there over 40 years (yes we have a pig farm in Vegas) When you are getting close to the farm you know it so why would you buy a house and save a few thousand then not expect to smell some pigs???? Mike Rowe of dirty jobs did an episode at the pig farm. It was too funny!

So I say to the complainers---move to a desert island and have all the peace you want, to me jet noise means freedom...Sue