The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) conducted by the U.S. Air Force, on the planned F-35 basing in Vermont states that: Our area would be negatively affected in the following categories: Noise, Safety, Climate Change, Air Quality, Socioeconomics, Land Use, Transportation, Environmental Justice, and the Protection of Children. More information available in this brochure in PDF […]
By Sven Berg October 14, 2017 The first F-35s ever to land in Boise arrived Friday from Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, crew members said. The two jets were parked Saturday on the tarmac at Gowen Field, the Idaho Air National Guard base that shares the Boise Airport’s runways, for thousands of Gowen Thunder […]
By Daniel Wasserbly September 19, 2017 The Pentagon is shortly to determine the location of a base for an additional Air National Guard unit with new Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighters. A review is now complete, and its results are being analysed. A basing decision is expected “in the next couple of months”, Air […]
By Valerie Insinna August 23 Northrop Grumman has a pitch to solve communications problems between the F-35 and F-22: Put a new radio on a Global Hawk drone and have it act like a translator between the two assets. The U.S. Air Force’s two most advanced fighter jets, the F-35 and F-22, cannot currently transmit […]
By Valerie Insinna August 30 A wing commander at Luke Air Force Base on Wednesday lifted an altitude restriction on F-35 flights at the Arizona base, but Air Force investigators are no closer to understanding what prompted five incidents of pilot oxygen deprivation earlier this summer. Between May 2 and June 8, five different Luke […]
By Lara Seligman September 18, 2017 The U.S. Air Force is making changes to F-35 flight equipment to make breathing easier for pilots, as the Pentagon continues searching for a root cause of five hypoxia-like cockpit incidents in the new fighter at an Arizona Air Force base… [FULL ARTICLE]
By Valerie Insinna September 17 As the Air Force increases its F-35 buy rate and more joint strike fighters come online, the question is not if it will begin retiring its legacy combat aircraft, but when. Air Force leaders hope to have a better answer to that question later this fall, when Air Combat Command […]
By Colonel Rosanne Greco Ret. I’m writing from the Burlington, Vermont area to tell the people of the Boise, Idaho area that you are not alone. Although we are thousands of miles apart, we are close in our shared concern about a threat to our cities: the basing of the F-35. This is not hyperbole. […]
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 […]
By Sven Berg June 19, 2017 The Federal Aviation Administration will cover 93.75 percent of the $300,000 cost to design, acquire and install a noise-monitoring system at the Boise Airport. The airport, which the city of Boise owns, will cover the remaining $18,750. The monitoring system will allow the airport to compare the amount of noise […]