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Cold Lake, Alberta is a major RCAF operating base, and has some of the best military airspace in North America for training. 

The statute of limitations appears to have expired on some low level flying back in the day, featuring some CF-5 Freedom Fighters operating out of Cold Lake. Toward the end, there’s a bit of CF-188 Hornet action, but for the most part, it’s F-5s low enough to really get the heart rate going.

When I was stationed at Illesheim, Germany, a former Luftwaffe base, it made a convenient target for various NATO forces to practice air raids against. And I recall one pleasant spring day walking to the mess hall when suddenly half a dozen Canadian Hornets appeared from all around the compass at high speed and very, very low level. It must have taken an entire 20 seconds for the raid package to appear, strike, and disappear.