Should see the whiny b*tches in and around Takeley, next to Stansted. Like they moved in, and then went "ohh, there's a honking great airport next door?!?!!"
....ah, but like Heathrow, it's not the
current airport they're complaining about, it's the projected expansion. A second runway will double the capacity- is it
really neccesary? Takely is something of a special case in that the airport will effectively double in size and bring the end of the second runway practically into the village, it's a huge development, and I can understand their protesting about it, especially in view of that Korean plane that went down there just missing hallinbury a few years back.....if a similar crash were to happen on take off on the projected second runway Takely is where the plane would come down.
The other issue is Hatfield forest, a rare surviving chunk of medieval wood-pasture with a sizeable proportion of England's most ancient pollards, which will be directly under the take off path, one emergency fuel dump will destroy a thousand years of continuous careful management, there's very few places left like Hatfield Forest. Oliver Rackham will not be happy and nor will I!! Some things are worth more than the ability to put a few more planes in the air.
1968 Triumph Vitesse Mk1 2 litre convertible, Junior Miss rusty has a 1989 998cc Mk2 Metro, Mrs Rusty has a modern common rail diesel thing.
Imagine what would happen, if people in West London complained about Heathrow Airport. Would they close that 
I had relatives, who lived in the flightpath of Heathrow (East Sheen, so the aircraft were low but not on top of them) but it was there before they moved in and they just accepted it.
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