Back in the 70s I lived in navy housing just off the end of the runway at
HNL.  You learn to listen to aircraft, the normal noises don't bother you
but you want to know if something's wrong.  Just before we moved in there,
a mil jet of some sort splashed down in the lagoon between enlisted and
officers housing.  Could have been a lot worse.

One afternoon I'm hearing a single turbine approaching, and it's spooling
up and down, up and down. Very unusual noises.  I started looking for where
he was and which way to run.  A few seconds later this long thin jet came
overhead, very quiet, with LONG LONG wings.   U2 putting in at HNL.  I bet
something was wrong, that was the only time I ever saw one there, and it
was probably still black. They wouldn't have had the jeeps with pogo sticks
for the wings either.

I suspect that the spooling up and down was the pilot trying to get the
engine low enough to land without causing a flameout.
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