Welcome to StoptheF35.com!
It was recently announced by the US Air Force that Burlington International Airport is now a top choice for the basing of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter despite the fact the an Environmental Impact Study has yet to be completed. BIA is the preferred location for the F-35 in part because our pristine air quality will allow the USAF (via the VTANG) to produce a large amount of pollution without requiring any mitigation. Given that the F-35 burns Benzene (a class A carcinogen) at a much higher rate than the F-16, this is a very important factor.
The F-35 is nearly twice as loud on take-off as the current F-16’s and up to 4 times as loud on landing. The noise level of this weapon will render large areas of the surrounding neighborhood uninhabitable allowing BIA to use FAA funds (our federal tax dollars) to purchase and demolish more homes and rezone the area industrial. The noise levels will lead to serious home depreciation, a de-facto asset seizure from all homeowners in the area as each 1 decibel increase in noise results in a 1{33979494efa9b9c28f844b5c37a1ddedf4bb90a2eb3dac7a83ede58b7eac2e67} decrease in home value.
The F-35 program is the most expensive military project in history, projected to cost US taxpayers $500 billion. It is behind schedule, 90{33979494efa9b9c28f844b5c37a1ddedf4bb90a2eb3dac7a83ede58b7eac2e67} over budget, facing significant technical challenges and is ever increasingly siphoning funds away from other weapons systems necessary for the proper functioning of US aerial forces, potentially putting our soldiers in danger.
Please sign the Stop the F-35 Petition:
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/stopthef35
Please forward the petition to your friends, neighbors and colleagues and join us in opposing basing the F-35 at Burlington International Airport.
F-35 in the News:
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/09/hasc-air-force-budget-hearing-video.html
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-kill-joint-strike-fighter.html
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/09/real-facts-on-noise.html
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/08/could-f-35-interfere-with-clean-energy.html
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/09/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know.html
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/08/us-tax-payers-will-be-left-holding-tab.html
http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com/2010/05/q-with-winslow-wheeler-by-juliet-buck.html
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Stop The F-35 Coalition https://saveourskiesvt.org/ and http://f35insouthburlington.blogspot.com