Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #466........................................................................February 3, 2007 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm The PASSUR airport flight tracking system at many major U.S. airports http://www.passur.com/sites.htm (you must have Java installed to view it). If you want to get the newsletter sent to you every week, sign up to AviationWatch. Bill Mulcahy rockaway@prodigy.net
Quote of the Week: "If we don’t have a seat at the table, we have no right to complain later.” comment from Ridgefield, Connecticut First Selectman Rudy Marconi on his town's joining in approving spending $70,000 to join the Alliance for Sensible Airspace Planning
Politicians Love Aviation Pollution!!!
As
Bill Sees It (Editorial): Stupid
Republicans Use Old Air Force One Plane As Debate Backdrop!!! One
thing that is comes clear during the debates in both parties is that they both
love aviation expansion. As for Republicans, the stupidity exhibited by their party's president, George Bush, has carried
over to those who want his job. These candidates obviously don't live in a FAA
noise pollution hell with planes going over one-a-minute during the day and all
night long. However many Americans do and I am sure the symbolism of the debate
background wasn't lost on them. It looks more and more like a democrat victory
this fall, whether its Hillary or Barack. So I guess no Republicans are ever going
to get to ride on Air Force One, at least not as president. Not that the
Democrats care any more about the quality of life and health of Americans; they
are just smart enough to shove their uncaring in
our faces. New
York's Governor Lauds Stewart Airport As An
"Enormous
Economic "Engine" For Region!!!
Somebody should ask the Governor Spitzer if he would like to live 
under the
flight path of this enormous economic engine(s). Of course he wouldn't. Like
most politicians he lives in an area that is carefully protected from plane
noise. If a politician gets to be president, he gets a automatic
"no-fly" zone wherever he goes. When he leaves office he gets the
no-fly zone over wherever he lives!!! Maybe New York's Governor Spitzer is
trying to get no-zones for governors like he tried to get driver's licenses for
illegal aliens.
Connecticut:
Community To Vote On Whether To Join Fight Against Airspace Redesign: Voters
will decide next Wednesday whether Ridgefield will join the area fight against a
plan to reroute New York airport traffic overhead. If voters approve spending
$70,000 to join the Alliance for Sensible Airspace Planning, Ridgefield will
join more than a dozen Fairfield County towns in the effort to change the
Federal Aviation Authority’s proposed airspace redesign. The aviation agency
has already approved the redesign, but not yet adopted it. First Selectman Rudy
Marconi said he hopes voters at the town meeting will approve the cost of
joining the battle. “It’s for legal representation, lobbying and a
grass-roots effort,” he said. “If we don’t have a seat at the table, we
have no right to complain later.”
The Board of Selectmen and the Board of Finance have already voted to approve
the money for Ridgefield to join the airspace alliance, but the appropriation
must also be approved by voters at a town meeting. The selectmen will hold a
public hearing on the matter immediately before the town meeting vote. The
hearing is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, in the lower
level conference room of town hall. http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/ridgefield/28442.shtml
New
York Governor Says Stewart Airport Expansion Is An "Economic Engine For The
Region:"
Poughkeepsie – Governor Eliot Spitzer Wednesday had a message about the future
of the Hudson Valley’s economy – watch out for Stewart Airport. Speaking to
the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce in Poughkeepsie, Spitzer said
the Newburgh airport is going to put the region on the map. “Stewart Airport
will be an enormous economic engine for the Hudson Valley. It will transform the
capacity of businesses to get here. It will be a destination,” he said.
“Sometimes people get a bit worried that it might become the fourth major
airport after Newark, LaGuardia and Kennedy, that rubs some people the wrong
way, but let me tell you it is going to be an enormous economic engine.”
Officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who took over
operations of the airport in November, have consistently said it would not be
developed as a fourth jetport. But, Wednesday, the governor appeared not to rule
that out. http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/Spitzer_SWF-30Jan08.htm
Germany: Berliners Love Their Airport???
Berlin is to hold a referendum on whether the Tempelhof Airport, located within
the city, should be closed. "No other European city could hold such a
plebiscite," Jutta Kramm says. "If you asked Parisians, Londoners or
Romans if they'd like an airport smack in the middle of town, they'd say 'No
thanks.' But Berliners are different. They hold a referendum on noise and dirt
in the city centre, and huge financial loss. After all, that's what they would
get with the continued usage of Tempelhof Airport. ... But Berlin is not like
any other large city. It was the capital of the Cold War, a city on the front
lines, and an island. No one took things for granted. You had to take a stand:
For America and its way of life, or against. For Socialism and the Party, or
against. That's the only way to explain why East Berliners are so upset by the
razing of the Palace of the Republic; and it also explains why many West
Berliners cling to their Airlift airport." http://europe.courrierinternational.com/eurotopics/article.asp?langue=uk&publication=01/02/2008&cat=LOCAL+COLOURS&pi=0
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