The graphic (website) version of this newsletter can be accessed at:
http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/newsletter422.htm
Quote of the Week: "Simply put, we're talking about an industry that can
lead to more than 150,000 jobs that pay family sustaining wages here in
Luzerne County," Pennsylvania State Representative Todd A. Eachus who is
pu****ng jobs as a quality of life trade-off for a heavily night-operating
air cargo hub in Hazelton, Pennsylvania
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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#422.........................................................................April
1, 2007 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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The PASSUR air****t
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tracking system at many major U.S. air****ts
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Operating Air Cargo Cancer Spreading!!!
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As Bill Sees It: (Editorial): NIGHT Operating Air Cargo Industry Looking
For
Victims: All development is not progress and all growth is not good;
sometimes it is cancerous. While we have made some gains with the goals of
cleaner air and water, even with President Moronic Polluter in charge,
noise
pollution is increasing as the air cargo industry expands. Air****ts are
cancer causers and air cargo air****ts not only cause cancer they destroy
people's sleep and health. The same sort of short sighted, greedy
polluters
that have brought us global warming are promoting air cargo air****ts,
which
by the way are major contributor to the global warming problem. Promising
to
"revitalize" and "save" poor, minority communities, the air cargo industry
is desperately looking for new places to expand their sleep disturbing
night
operations. The Northeast seems to be especially targeted recently with
Hazelton, Pennsylvania and Newburgh, New York latest on the air cargo
industry's hit list. Air Cargo Industry Doing Public Relations Campaign In
Targeted Communities? Already appearing in these communities are glowing
newspaper stories telling the public about how wonderful it will be
having
a giant air****t in their backyard. Hardly a word is spoken about the price
they are going to have to pay with lost sleep because of night plane
operations and increased air pollution. Most of these stories look like
press releases from the air cargo industry. Local politicians, even some
who
consistently ****tray themselves as active environmentalists, have joined
in
the parade of people who want to inflict these environmental horrors on
their own constituents. Polls, like the one from the New York newspaper,
the
Times Herald Record show that almost a quarter of the public are still not
buying their jobs for quality-of-life trade-off.
Newburgh, New York, (Letter to the editor) Stewart Expansion A Disgrace:
All the recent positive press surrounding the growth of Stewart Air****t
has
left out the voice of those who live in the direct flight path of this
expansion. I can say that it will be a miserable existence having planes
constantly flying over my home at all hours of the day and night. Many of
us
have lived here for years under the threat of expansion, dreading what it
would do to our quality of life, not to mention home values. I am sure
that
its sup****ters might think differently if they had to deal with the noise
of
jets, sometimes so loud you can't have a phone conversation or hear the
television! What are we willing to give up to be able to catch a quick
flight to Florida? This entire concept seems like a nightmare to me and
many
of my neighbors. We feel like if we don't sell and move now, we may lose
out
later when we have a mini-JFK in our backyard. What a disgrace - people
live
here! Kristen Gehlhoff, Newburgh, New York Editor's Note: At least one
person isn't buying into the ****t Authority of NY/NJ scam.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/OPINION/704010318
New Canaan, Connecticut: Community Forms Group To Address Airspace
Redesign
Plan: A proposed rerouting of aircraft over the Northeast would reduce
travel delays without creating major noise disturbances for residents
below,
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said this week. But officials in
New Canaan, who last week formed a committee to study the issue, say the
changes will be a threat from above. "The FAA redesign has been a sleeper,
but we won't be sleeping as well if it is implemented," 125th District
State
Rep. John Hetherington said. "The re-routing of aircraft over southwestern
Connecticut threatens the quality of life that we take for granted in New
Canaan. We need to act quickly with other towns likely to be impacted
before
the FAA's decision becomes final in late summer." "New Canaan and
Greenwich
will present a strong, united front," First Selectman Judy Neville said
yesterday. "We will vigorously oppose this proposal." The newly formed New
Canaan Air Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting at 9 a.m. today,
Thursday, March 29, in the Town Hall Auditorium. The group is headed by
Selectman Paul Giusti, Rep. Hetherington, Town Council member Kit
Devereaux
and Jim Beall, a New Canaan resident and licensed pilot. As early as
August,
the FAA could begin implementing the area's first major airspace redesign
since the 1960s, changing the ways planes come and go at five of the
region's
busiest air****ts. Most notably for Connecticut, the redesign, which the
FAA
officially chose as its "preferred alternative" last Friday, would ****ft
the
flight paths of planes arriving at New York's LaGuardia Air****t, pu****ng
traffic 30 miles east, from Putnam County and Westchester County, N.Y., to
Fairfield County.
http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/newcanaan/p1-faa-3-29.shtml
Editor's Note: Better (very) late than never.
Civil War Erupts Over FAA's New Funding Proposal in Wa****ngton: "In the
next decade, demand for air travel is expected to triple. At the same
time,
the Aviation Trust Fund, which currently pays many of the costs associated
with running the FAA's air traffic control, is at all-time low. The agency
is also trying to upgrade to using the global positioning system, which
would allow it to better manage congestion and avoid air traffic gridlock.
Its new funding proposal, the FAA says, will enable that. It is absolutely
a
crucial turning point, not just for the FAA but for future of our entire
aviation system," Marion Blakey, the top official at the agency, tells
U.S.
News. "We're at the pivot point where either we decide to make a solid,
sustainable commitment to the [upgraded next-generation] system ... or we
miss that op****tunity altogether." However, skeptics and members of the
general aviation community-those who use small planes and business
jets-are
howling over how the FAA plans to get there. The agency has proposed
aboli****ng the 7.5 percent tax on airplane tickets that currently makes up
about half of the money going into the Aviation Trust Fund each year and
replacing it with a more than 200 percent increase in taxes on most
aircraft
fuels, as well as special fees for planes using domestic airspace.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070330/30faa.htm
Chicago, Illinois Community Gets Taxes Raised Because Of Air****t!!! Many
Bensenville residents are likely to be more displeased than normal when
they
open their next property tax bills in early May. And Village President
John
Geils is already telling them where to vent their anger: the city of
Chicago
and the OHare Modernization Project. Why? Because as Chicago has
purchased hundreds of homes in Bensenville to make way for new runways,
the
city has successfully petitioned to have those properties exempted from
real
estate taxes. That leaves remaining homeowners in Bensenville to absorb
about $710,000 in property taxes that would otherwise come from homeowners
in the expansion zone. That number is the village's estimate of how much
property tax the village, schools and other local government bodies will
lose from the expansion area, based on new *****sment figures for 2006
just
released by Addison Town****p. That loss, they say, could spell disaster
for
both taxpayers and local taxing agents that rely on those funds.
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/dupagestory.asp?id=296432&cc=d&tc=&t=
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Im****tant Aviation News Stories This Week
Big, busy Stewart could be an environmental disaster
By Bill Mulcahy
March 27, 2007
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070327/OPINION/703270308
I believe the ****t Authority's plan for Stewart Air****t is the worst
environmental impact ever to be inflicted on the Hudson Valley. I think it
is insanity to allow out-of-towners and local politicians to make a
decision
of this magnitude without a full public scrutiny of the implications.
There
seems to be a massive effort to rush this project through so there will be
no public discussion.
Don't people know that the other major New York City area air****ts have
more
than 1,000 flights a day each? The ****t Authority and politicians are
assuring everyone that the new Stewart Air****t will not be on the same
scale. What they mean is it will take them a few years to get up to that
volume of traffic. I don't think people up here know what it's like to
live
near a major city air****t with that many jumbo jets taking off and landing
all day and night. I do. I moved up here to recover my health after the
****t
Authority moved a night flight path over my home and destroyed my sleep.
A recent poll by the Times Herald-Record showed that 25 percent of online
readers were "concerned" about the ****t Authority takeover. I think these
concerns should be addressed before the takeover is complete. The regional
economic summit at SUNY Ulster on March 20 was nothing more than a
sugarcoated, promotional exercise by the ****t Authority and local planners
who, I believe, have little concern for the health and quality of life of
Hudson Valley people. Just the fact that this conference was held many
miles
away from the communities that will receive the worst of the impact and
was
intended only for businessmen and not the public should raise warning
flags
to those who are concerned about what Stewart Air****t will be turned into.
I believe that the ****t Authority plans for Stewart have nothing to do
with
passenger flights but everything to do with building a giant, mostly
night-operating, air cargo hub. The air cargo industry has evolved into a
nighttime operation because most major city air****ts have their daytime
slots taken up by passenger flights and only the night is available. Night
flights are the worst environmental impact that an air****t has and get the
most complaints.
If having a giant air****t in the Hudson Valley is such a good idea, then
why
are there so many communities, like those near Teterboro Air****t,
complaining about them? Their congressman, Steve Rothman, tells his
constituents on his Web site how proud he is that he stopped the ****t
Authority making Teterboro a "fourth major air****t in the New York/New
Jersey metropolitan area alongside JFK, Newark and La Guardia Air****ts."
What Teterboro communities and their congressmen fought so hard against,
Hudson Valley environmentalist congressmen Maurice Hinchey and John Hall
are
pu****ng. Why is what Teterboro didn't want good for us?
If we can't get our politicians to stop this monstrosity, maybe we can get
a
10 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew on night flights agreed to before the takeover.
At
least Hudson Valley residents would get some peace at night so we could
sleep undisturbed. That's what La Guardia and Teterboro air****ts have. If
the ****t Authority leaders are not secretly planning a night-operating air
cargo hub, they will agree. If they don't, it will be clear that there is
a
conspiracy to destroy our quality of life by an evil cabal.
Bill Mulcahy
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