I remember practicing touch and go's at the London airport back when (I forget the name of it) HUGE Russian cargo plane used to drop off engines or something. flying my down wind leg, my instructor was giving me $****. "Pay attention to what your doing!.........someone has to, I'm looking at the plane" Another day flying curcuits, on my down wing leg, way out I could see lights and smoke. Coming in on final, I hear on the radio that it's a Hercules coming in. I got to watch it land from about 100' away. It was awesome. I'm pretty sure they used less pavement to land then I did...........must have some sort of special seceret military thinggy in it