*I* don't want no stinking bombers
EC92@AOL.COM
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:36:22 EST
>For Peter, Mike and all of you others out there that think a low level >fly
over by B52's or other "state-of-the-art fighters"is a wonderful
>thing, please send your addresses to:
>
>RBTI EIS
>c/o 7th CES/CEA
>710 Third Street
>Dyess Air Force Base, TX 79607
>
>Tell them your feelings and suggest that they make your neighborhood the
>low level training site. Then everyone would be happy.
>
SPEAKING TO YOU FROM MY HOME --- sorry --- my home at the end of an O'Hare
flight path (see, there IS a reason for me to act this way) they can practice
elsewhere. I'll survive crashes and everything else (and have - guess who's
Explorer Post was part of a DC-10 clean-up once?), but every KLM pilot seems
to be aiming at my roof now. Maybe because I complained?
Ever been through O'Hare? See a real large water tower on takeoff or landing
from the Northwest? You've been over my head. Hope you didn't flush then
(sorry, that's a joke around here).
And don't ever buy the "It's just a few planes for a little while" story. We
moved here when I was 12, there were few planes, and you could spends summers
with open windows. By the time I got to leave for COLLEGE, 747'S WERE
---sorry--- using the runway that aims toward my home since it was then the
longest they had and even then they had to approach real low. Other big planes
have been added, bit by bit (and I have to admit, the big Air Force transports
that used to come for the air shows were quieter than any KLM 747) and now, 30
years later, summer is awful and spent in an air conditioned home and you
STILL HAVE TO---sorry--- scream when they go over. Even with the longer
runways and "we won't fly out over homes between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m." (right)
its more than I need.
So give me a little time at PTC every year or so and I'll be able to
recuperate. And stop automatically yelling every few minutes.
Not to mention THE DIRT, GUNK, AND GARBAGE ---sorry--- I have to remove from
my car windshield every morning to see. I'm told it can't be from the planes.
They're cleaner than ever, I'm told. And the reason the creeks running through
O'Hare are yellow downstream during the winter has absolutely nothing to do
with the amount of de-icer that flows into them I'm told.
So we need to take a wilderness area and use it to practice bombing runs?
Isn't that what the middle east is for?
Tom Petrik
