By: Jacob Dawson for VTDigger, Sept. 13, 2019 BURLINGTON — Two local physicians joined the ranks of Vermonters protesting against the imminent arrival of the F-35 fighter jets Friday, demonstrating outside Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Main Street office. It was the fifth day in a row opponents of the new jets turned up at Vermont’s senior […]
By: Mike Dougherty for VTDigger, Sept. 13, 2019 The first two F-35s in the Vermont Air National Guard’s new fleet of fighter jets are scheduled to arrive in Burlington by next Friday. But a coalition of protesters who have fought the basing for years continues to press the military to change its mind. NBC5 first […]
By: Erin Brown for WCAX, Sept. 10, 2019 BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) People against the basing of the F-35 jets in Burlington went to Senator Patrick Leahy’s office on Tuesday for the second time this week. Seven people gathered outside of his office building at 4:30 p.m. and walked together upstairs to the senator’s office to confront […]
By: Zuri Hoffman for NBC 5, Sept. 10, 2019 SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — On Tuesday, a small group of people gathered at Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy’s office to make a last minute push to stop the F-35 planes from coming to the Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. “I grew up here so I don’t […]
By: Japser Craven for VTDigger, Aug. 29, 2019 n the eyes of many who oppose the F-35, the Vermont Air National Guard’s original sin came during the era of the F-16, when pilots began frequently implementing afterburners, which are essentially auxiliary jets that increase thrust — and noise — on takeoff. There was no environmental […]
By: Kevin McCallum for Seven Days, Aug. 29, 2019 Opponents of the decision to base F-35 fighter jets in Burlington say newly obtained documents suggest the aircraft will likely be far louder than the U.S. Air Force and Vermont Air National Guard have previously acknowledged. With the arrival of the next generation fighters just weeks […]
From City of Madison, Aug. 9, 2019 Draft of Environmental Statement made findings of significant disproportionate impact on communities of color, children, and Madison east and northsides On August 8, 2019, Madison elected officials, including state Representative Chris Taylor, Dane County Board Supervisor Yogesh Chawla, and City of Madison Alder Marsha Rummel, expressed serious concerns […]
By: Jen Fifield for AZ Central, Feb. 5, 2019 As skies around Luke Air Force Base get busier and noisier, the base wants West Valley residents who live nearby to know that this is the new norm. The base’s F-35 program is growing, as planned. With more planes and more pilots to train, there’s more […]
By: Jasper Craven for VTDigger, December 19, 2018 Release of the first noise map for the Burlington International Airport to include data on the F-35 fighter jets will be delayed by two months, according to airport officials. The map was originally scheduled to be released this week, but won’t be available until sometime in February, […]
By James Marc Leas July 19, 2017 A crisis plagues 976 families in a working-class neighborhood of South Burlington, Vermont. Eighteen screamingly loud F-16 fighter bombers based at Vermont’s main airport are the cause. Worse, the number of families in crisis from this jet noise is set to sharply increase in two years when the […]