Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter

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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter #71...............................July 9, 2000 Past newsletters can be accessed at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/ACNewsmenu.htm ==================================================================

New Aviation Coalition Pushes Phony Noise Pollution Standards

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New Aviation Cabal Coalition Pushing "International" Phony Noise Standards: The Coalition for a Global Standard on Aviation Noise is obviously the latest manifestation of the U.S.-controlled, aviation industry cabal in the guise of an environmental organization. The tipoff is that their TOTAL focus on noise pollution is not on the health impacts on people, but on aircraft engines!!! The fact that they are meeting in Belgium is interesting. Belgium tried to ban night flights at the beginning of the year but quickly reversed http://news.airwise.com/stories/2000/01/947765666.html itself when the Aviation Cabal started turning the screws. The European Union is the Cabal's latest target as they have been trying to prevent the noisy, air-polluting, hushkitted, U.S."Stage Three" (or is it "Chapter Three") planes from using their airports. Read story below or go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-05-2000/0001258690&EDATE=

Latest List Of Groups Fighting Aviation Pollution: David Staudacher's quiet@quiet.org July listing of aviation groups and even other aviation pollution resources! Although some of them, like the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, are not "community-based" and have questionable credentials. Contact him if your group is not on the list or if you want the list of non-aviation groups fighting noise. See the list at: http://pages.prodigy.net/rockaway/AviationGroupList.htm

Hong Kong Plans "Noisy Plane Ban" By 2002: At first I thought this is just another country using the typical FAA "reducing plane noise" hype. However, the news story mentions that they actually want to ban "Boeing 727s, 737-100s, 737-200s and 747-100s." These are the hushkitted planes! Does this mean Hong Kong is siding with the European Union in the World Airport Noise War? What will President Perjurer and his aviation polluter pals do now? This could be a trend! Stay tuned. http://www.scmp.com/News/HongKong/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000707030129288.asp

Los Angeles Tries Noise Monitoring...On Gunshots!!! ABC News again did a noise story on Wednesday. It seems there is an experiment called "Shotspotter" where they put sensors on telephone poles and triangulate the sounds of gunshots. Why couldn't this kind of technology be used to develop REAL airport noise pollution maps for communities instead of using the FAA's phony computer models? Why couldn't some of the billions of Passenger Facility Charge (PFC's) dollars be used for making accurate airport noise maps that include ACTUAL aircraft noise and even air pollution near airports? Read story at: http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/dailynews/spotshooter000705.html

Low Frequency Noise Sickness: Vibroacoustic Disease (VAD): Reader Trina Simorile sent me this site. This is the first time I've even heard of this disease. What is even more "significant" (the government's favorite word) is that this information comes from an organization of doctors who work in the aviation industry! Check it out at: http://www.asma.org/abstracts/v70n3s/toc.htm

Airport 101: How To Convince Communities Airport Pollution Is Good: What chance does a community have when the well-financed Aviation Cabal even has courses for airport operators on how to counter the "small and very vocal anti-airport element in nearly every community that has an airport." The Cabal is developing aviation pollution promotion into a science! Read the story at: http://library.northernlight.com/FC20000628570000117.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc

Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Dallas' Love Field Case: With the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to let stand lower court rulings http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/99/99-60008-cv0.htm regarding long-haul flights out of Dallas's Love Field, legal barriers to expanded operations at the in-city airport are gone. But airport neighbors who turned out last week for the first of three public hearings for a proposed master plan for the field's future would rather see fewer flights, not more. The Dallas Morning News reported that most of the 150 people who showed up wanted to know why the city was even contemplating future development at a field they believe already generates too much noise and pollution.

New slots awarded at Reagan National Airport: It looks as if Senator John "Insane" McCain, (AKA "the songbird") will get the direct flight to Phoenix he's always wanted. The DOT says the extra flights will provide "more service and enhance competition." But communities living near see an increased assault in their noise/air pollution hell. Read story at: http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/ap/jul00/ap-airport-slots070500.asp

Boeing Could Launch 'stretched' Version of 747 in Six to Nine Months: The http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGITXE8DEAC.html

Helicopter Curfew Proposed In Los Angeles: http://www.latimes.com/editions/valley/20000702/t000062541.html

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BAA "wins" Boston airport contract: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest airport operator, BAA , has boosted its U.S. presence with a contract to run the retail and catering operations for Boston International Airport's two main terminals.

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Aviation News Stories

World's Aviation Stakeholders Join Forces to Reduce Aircraft Noise

BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to pressure for noise
relief around airports throughout the world, more than 40 of the world's most
prominent aviation organizations have formed a coalition to support the
development of quieter jet aircraft noise standards.
Called the Coalition for a Global Standard on Aviation Noise, its purpose
is to achieve a successful outcome to the International Civil Aviation
Organization's ongoing efforts to lower noise levels at the world's airports.
Three principles will guide the Coalition's work:

1. Preservation of the international principle of a single global
certification standard for noise reduction.
2. Protection of the airline industry's investment in the Chapter 3 fleet.
3. Development of an effective and technically feasible new aircraft noise
certification standard.

"The coalition has been assembled to bring all the stakeholders together
to work towards a common goal of a new noise stringency by September, 2001. We
have airports, airlines, engine manufacturers and labor representatives all
joining together from around the world to pursue this goal," said coalition
Chairman Gerald L. Baliles, at the European Aviation Club Seminar on Aviation
Noise here.
"The aviation noise issue must be addressed, because it has the potential
to disrupt the global aviation industry with dramatic economic consequences
for companies, consumers and communities around the world," said Baliles.
"For more than 50 years questions of aviation noise standards have been
determined by ICAO and that is where the current controversy over new noise
standards must be addressed and resolved," Baliles said.
"Without a new standard the current commercial aviation system will
founder. And if it founders, much less business around the world will be done.
The effects of such a result would be felt in the lives of all of us, in ways
both large and small," he said.
The new standard must be stringent enough to provide real noise reduction
for nearby airport residents, yet offer some certainty for the financial
health and operations of the aviation industry, Baliles said.
"The aviation industry must take the opportunity it has right now to shape
the debate and the solutions. That is exactly what this coalition proposes to
do," he said.
A former Governor of the U.S. State of Virginia, Gerald Baliles, served as
chairman of the U.S. National Airline Commission to promote a strong
competitive airline industry in 1993, and from 1995 to 1998 led a coalition of
airlines and airports, called Access US-Japan, to promote new air service
between the United States and Japan.

New Slots Awarded at Reagan Airport

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Eight airlines will share a dozen new roundtrip slots at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

The Department of Transportation announced its decision Wednesday, ending months of vying among several carriers for the coveted slots.

Reagan National - the closest airport to the nation's capital - used to have a 1,250-mile limit for flights. But half of the new slots will be for flights beyond that zone.

Those winners are America West with two daily roundtrips to Phoenix and one to Las Vegas - a route National Airlines also won. Frontier Airlines gets a roundtrip to Denver and TWA gets a roundtrip to Los Angeles.

The rest of the slots will be within the old zone. Those winners are America Trans Air with two roundtrips to Chicago, Midwest Express with service to Des Moines, Iowa, Midway Airlines with a roundtrip to Raleigh-Durham, N.C. and Spirit Airlines adds two flights to Florida destinations.

The DOT says the extra flights will provide more service and enhance competition. But critics - including a number of Northern Virginia residents - say it will just increase the amount of airplane noise in the area.