Letter: F-35 noise is too much for community

As a business owner and 18-year resident of the Sam Hughes neighborhood (one of many neighborhoods which can describe themselves as "in the flight path") I would suggest that despite the letter writer's experience near an airbase in Glasgow, the plane noise she heard in no way resembles that made by an F-35. Living in Oro Valley she may never have heard one, but many of us are subjected to their flyovers several times a week.

They are sometimes horrifying, always disturbing and disruptive. She compares Tucson's noise problems to other causes, but if none of these causes is ever addressed we will have no choice but to become a "Phoenix." Read the Facebook page at Quiet Tucson Skies and note the four major large jet crashes in one very short period of time. A single plane lost over a major metropolitan area could cause unspeakable horror. It isn't necessary in Tucson. Jet noise won’t protect you from anything.

Susan Banner

Midtown

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