I'm for a fan of civil aircraft (mostly because I'm weird) but I was at an airshow at YQY last summer, and got to "help" a local news crew with their equipment during a practice flight of a CF-18.
This is from the tarmac taken with my Blackberry (I almost took my dad's Nikon D60 but thought, I'll never get a clear shot from behind a chain link fence! Stupid, stupid, stupid!