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<blockquote data-quote="SavingEverySecond" data-source="post: 1078808" data-attributes="member: 45431"><p>I actually live in Middlebury. I'm working on picking up a second job in the Burlington area to make my commute financially feasible. That being said, I really haven't been following the friend-35 issue as ardently as some other VT's have. It's hard to know what's true and false about the issue. Allegedly, they are 4 times louder than the friend-16's, of which there are 24 currently operational at the airport. The plan is to replace them with 18-24 friend-35's. Whether or not they really are that much louder, Idk...but I suppose that if noise pollution was that great of a concern to me, I wouldn't have purchased a home near the airport. After all...it's an AIRPORT, lol. Anyway, I have a funny feeling that this would not have been an issue around the end of 2001. People tend to forget little events like that. On the flip side, the friend-35 is a very expensive option for short range defense of the NE...there are many cheaper airframes that could have been contracted but the facts are that a)we are struggling to be at the head of a perpetual worldwide arms race, whether or not we will need them in the near future and , unfortunately, b)we do live in a highly capitalist society, a large chunk of which is from the massive military-industrial complex; a fact that a few thousand people protesting the noise levels/pollution of a single new air craft contract is not going to change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SavingEverySecond, post: 1078808, member: 45431"] I actually live in Middlebury. I'm working on picking up a second job in the Burlington area to make my commute financially feasible. That being said, I really haven't been following the friend-35 issue as ardently as some other VT's have. It's hard to know what's true and false about the issue. Allegedly, they are 4 times louder than the friend-16's, of which there are 24 currently operational at the airport. The plan is to replace them with 18-24 friend-35's. Whether or not they really are that much louder, Idk...but I suppose that if noise pollution was that great of a concern to me, I wouldn't have purchased a home near the airport. After all...it's an AIRPORT, lol. Anyway, I have a funny feeling that this would not have been an issue around the end of 2001. People tend to forget little events like that. On the flip side, the friend-35 is a very expensive option for short range defense of the NE...there are many cheaper airframes that could have been contracted but the facts are that a)we are struggling to be at the head of a perpetual worldwide arms race, whether or not we will need them in the near future and , unfortunately, b)we do live in a highly capitalist society, a large chunk of which is from the massive military-industrial complex; a fact that a few thousand people protesting the noise levels/pollution of a single new air craft contract is not going to change. [/QUOTE]
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