Warning: light spoilers ahead.
They went out and recorded radio-controlled jets both flying and stationary.
Some of those sounds were more for the leg sounds the legs of Iron Patriot.

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Yeah, that might be good for this.
There was a lot of trial and error.
Experimentation was also called for when the team set out to capture sounds for the house attack.

So instead of a ba-boom, it was just a ping.
But there were definitely moments of subtlety in the film.