A loud visitor helped Floyd County government kick off the new, and presently unoccupied, Innovation Center at the Economic Development Park on Christiansburg Pike Monday.

The Navy Prowler was one of two that screamed low overhead for early in the speeches by various county officials.

With an increase of air strikes in Iraq and Syria starting in the Mideast, the military is increasing the training fights through the mountains and that means a lot of low-altitude, high-speed and ear-splitting passes.