which I find so strangely attractive.

Still after so many decades a superfast thing, this old warrior.

Remember the massive noises when I was a kid, these and the doomed F-104 Starfighters crossed our place all the time, and low.
Sometimes cracked the sound barrier.
Different times, don't need them back.

Not normal anymore, when a sonic boom happens somewhere over the country for a pursuit, it is in the media the next hour to explain people what happened.