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Planes taking off from Boston Logan can fly as low as 300 feet over the neighboring town of Winthrop--and average about 700. I've kayaked in the area and you basically have to stop talking every few minutes when a plane takes off. Arriving flights are even a bit lower (although not as loud).

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There was an episode of Cheers about this, where Carla buys a house extremely cheap and then believes it is haunted. After sleeping a night there, she finds out it’s because it is close to where planes land at Logan Airport, which calms her nerves.

Ha. Don't remember that.

I was kayaking with a long ago girlfriend and we were in the parking lot for the Winthrop boat launch. And I do remember we got into some conversation with a local and HE TALKED VERY LOUDLY. Which was something we joked about for a time.

You could actually land your boat at the end of Logan airport from there. But I assume if you were to do so, serious people with serious weaponry would pay you a visit very quickly.

Following up from another thread, excluding reflections and what not, a plane at 75 feet should be 16x louder than the same plane with the same throttle settings at 300 feet. Sound follows the inverse square rule, where a change in distance of X reduces the perceived noise to 1/x^2. Since 300/75 = 4, you get a factor of 16 in perceived difference. Yikes.

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