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Background Articles/Letters (see down below for "Blog Posts")...
- (Sept 7, 2020) = formal letter from Rincon Group (by Meg Weesner): "Re: AFRC F-35A Final Environmental Impact Statement"
- (Sept 2020) Filename "F-35 2020 FEIS Ten Deficiencies.docx" = "REPRESENTATIVE DEFICIENCIES IN THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AFRC F-35A OPERATIONAL BEDDOWN" (The deficiencies listed are not comprehensive -- but are merely representative of the flaws in the Final Impact Statement.)
- (Aug 2020) From US Air Force = F-35s "Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)" = Executive Summary (30 pages) and Full Report (~1,500 pages -- comparing 5 alternatives -- including Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson AZ)
- per Prof. Tom Bever (Regent Professor, Univ of Arizona) = "Summary on F-35 Noise at Davis-Monthan AFB", in Tucson = "The Air Force's own data shows that the ... F35 are all substantially louder than the current A-10s ... at least 30 decibels louder (8 times as loud perceptually -- 1,000 times the actual physical energy)"
- (from 2010) "Noise is the Issue at Public Meetings on F-35s" -- with good details, from long ago
- local website = TucsonForward.com -- "For Peaceful Skies Over Tucson"
recent "blog posts"...
[noise pollution] Letter from Rincon Group "AFRC F-35A Final Environmental Impact Statement" ... [more]
September 7, 2020
"We are opposed to stationing a squadron of F-35s at Davis-Monthan AFB. We believe that the Final EIS has not adequately addressed the issues of noise, air pollution, safety, and environmental justice that we described in our comments during scoping...
[noise pollution] "[6 Years of Risk] of Noisy F-35s in Tucson" by Gary Hunter ... [more]
September 7, 2020
per Gary Hunter: "We have recently learned that -- if the Air Force does not base the current squadron of F-35s at [Davis-Monthan AFB] -- they have up to six years to bring another squadron here under the same Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)....
[noise pollution] The Air Force's F-35 "Final Environmental Impact Statement" -- shared by Gary Hunter ... [more]
August 18, 2020
per Gary Hunter: "The Air Force has just released its Final Environmental Impact Statement, which describes the consequences of basing a squadron of F-35s at Davis-Monthan. -- The three volumes of the EIS total 1,518 pages. It’s slightly more...