These guys are trying to stop a series of idiotic lawsuits which threaten to kill general aviation. Their opponents are the usual NIMBY morons who won't get a link out of me because I refuse to move them up Google's page ranking. Check out their quotes page for some astonishing statements by the NIMBYs. I'm sympathetic to concerns about noise, but there are ways to deal with it without stomping on other people's liberties.

i agree: morons. when i lived in san jose, ca, there was a move to kill the little airport in south san jose (damn! i cannot remember the name!). anyhow, there was fear that an airplane might crash into the mall or neighborhoods that had cropped up around the airport. somewhere i probably still have my "save the airport" tee-shirt i bought to help support the effort. no idea what ever happened.

"Their opponents are the usual NIMBY morons . . ."

Time to move. Far away. Luna should do for starters.

I live 3 miles from a general aviation airport with helicopters and some WWI & II airplanes. I enjoy seeing them and don't have much noise. I think those people in MA just have too much time on their hands and too many dollar signs in their eyes.

Do you mean Reid-Hillview in San Jose? I remember that, and if I remember correctly, that little airport was the oldest airfield in the county (if not a larger geographic area). If the nearby residents had a problem, it was with the agent who sold them their property not disclosing it's existence, or better yet, the buyer not even asking if there was an airport in the neighborhood.

But that sort of thing is not confined to airports. You have urbanites moving out to rural areas who don't understand why you want to know what the prevaling winds are, and what your neighbors upwind are doing is of interest to you. They find out the hard way, and then demand the feedlot that's been there since the 20's close to spare their sensitive noses.

This is why I want signs welcoming people to Mojave that say "Welcome to Mojave. This is a space port. We make LOTS OF NOISE. If this bothers you, wave as you pass on by."

It would be wrong of me to suggest carpet bombing as a solution to this problem, but I'm going to anyway.