Auto Club Dragway suspends activities due to noise complaint
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:52 am
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This reminds me of all the whiners in my area regarding airport noise. The airport has been there since the beginning of time (strange but true), but the neighbor groups are always trying to shut it down, mostly citing noise as the reason. So people like me who like the airport, which was there when all of those folks moved into their homes btw, are constantly fighting to save it. The latest ploy is that everyone in the area is being poisoned by the exhaust from small planes using leaded gasoline. All the whiners and complainers seem to get joy out of sapping the joy out of others' lives.Kristoffer Gjevre wrote:http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120301/NHRA/120309991
I'd say it's even more annoying than that. It's people who bought their house at a lower price influenced by the fact that they're near the airport (or whatever lowered the price on their home), who then try to close down the thing that influenced the low price they got on their homes. I have absolutely no sympathy. In fact, I tend to think those people got what they deserved and hope we don't cave in to them. But that's the German in me coming out.George Schilling wrote:All the whiners and complainers seem to get joy out of sapping the joy out of others' lives.
George Schilling wrote:This reminds me of all the whiners in my area regarding airport noise. The airport has been there since the beginning of time (strange but true), but the neighbor groups are always trying to shut it down, mostly citing noise as the reason. So people like me who like the airport, which was there when all of those folks moved into their homes btw, are constantly fighting to save it. The latest ploy is that everyone in the area is being poisoned by the exhaust from small planes using leaded gasoline. All the whiners and complainers seem to get joy out of sapping the joy out of others' lives.Kristoffer Gjevre wrote:http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120301/NHRA/120309991
Talking about Long Beach Airport (Daughterty Field). Even the name indicates how old it is. I've seen some original pictures where it was just a on strip in a field about where 25L/7R is now with a couple hangars in the back round and Signal Hill aid it's oil derricks beyond that.Bob Beamesderfer wrote:George Schilling wrote:This reminds me of all the whiners in my area regarding airport noise. The airport has been there since the beginning of time (strange but true), but the neighbor groups are always trying to shut it down, mostly citing noise as the reason. So people like me who like the airport, which was there when all of those folks moved into their homes btw, are constantly fighting to save it. The latest ploy is that everyone in the area is being poisoned by the exhaust from small planes using leaded gasoline. All the whiners and complainers seem to get joy out of sapping the joy out of others' lives.Kristoffer Gjevre wrote:http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120301/NHRA/120309991
Is that the muni airport or Long Beach? Small planes aren't noisy. These dopes should be happy they didn't live under the flight path, four-miles east of O'Hare. Yeah, it was noisy when they took off going east. We learned to live with it.
Some people have real hardship in their lives and can't get help or get ahead. Then there are those who are just too self-centered.
A 787 will be in long beach march 13-15. If you happen to see it taking off or landing you will be amazed how much quieter it is even compared to the commercial jets of today. You'd be hard pressed to even hear it off airport property.George Schilling wrote: Commercial jet have gotten much quieter in recent years. The old Boeing workhouse 707 was very loud and very polluting. Of course there are very few flying today. John Travolta has one in his fleet I believe. You hardly hear the commercial jets of today.
Real easy: LBGP brings in lots o' $$$. I imagine any council members turn a "deaf" ear to any complaints.George Schilling wrote:... It (sic) hard to believe that the LBGP has survived all these years. With a mild off shore breeze, I can sometimes hear them 10 miles away.
Hmmm, I should save up for a home in the Irvine Great Park...John Coffey wrote:People bought homes there and then sued the developer and BKK after then realized there was a toxic waste landfill next door. they won.
Hey! There's an idea!!! Do one of those airplane/road racing country clubs but for Solo! "And your lovely home has direct access from your backyard to a 75 second autocross course..."Quoc-Viet Dang wrote:Hmmm, I should save up for a home in the Irvine Great Park...John Coffey wrote:People bought homes there and then sued the developer and BKK after then realized there was a toxic waste landfill next door. they won.
Can you arrange a tour? I'll buy you dinner.Marshall Grice wrote:A 787 will be in long beach march 13-15. If you happen to see it taking off or landing you will be amazed how much quieter it is even compared to the commercial jets of today. You'd be hard pressed to even hear it off airport property.George Schilling wrote: Commercial jet have gotten much quieter in recent years. The old Boeing workhouse 707 was very loud and very polluting. Of course there are very few flying today. John Travolta has one in his fleet I believe. You hardly hear the commercial jets of today.
You're like a year too late. Now I can't even get a tour of it (not that i need it ;) ). there is an internal company lottery to get a ticket for the tour, employees only.George Schilling wrote:
Can you arrange a tour? I'll buy you dinner.
It's being paid for with the airport fees ("PFC funds") so it's only the tax dollars of people who use the airport. Not saying this is proper or improper, just clarifying whose tax dollars you're talking about because I was curious.George Schilling wrote:YOUR TAX DOLLARS
I got to wonder around one a few years back, a lot of interior skin still missing at the time. I was up in Seattle for a job interview. They said I'd be riding that airplane for something like 18hrs at a time. I said no thank you.Marshall Grice wrote:You're like a year too late. Now I can't even get a tour of it (not that i need it ;) ). there is an internal company lottery to get a ticket for the tour, employees only.George Schilling wrote:
Can you arrange a {787} tour? I'll buy you dinner.
Good point Jayson.Jayson Woodruff wrote:Anyways to the Drag Strip: It's only a few years old. So while I understand the 'you bought a house near a raceway' argument, most people probably moved in before the drag strip. The noise of the cars on the oval during the day probably doesn't compare to dragsters in the parking lot at night.
The nearest house are pretty dang far away though. I can't imagine it's drowning out their Jerry Spring re-runs.
Jay W
I was doing the ROVAL on Sunday, and I did hear some loud cars from the drag strip. But then the distance from the drag strip to the infield is probably shorter than to Lot 12.Steve Ekstrand wrote:I should add. The drag strip was running a very large event the last weekend we ran. It included 7 second bikes that are amongst the loudest carrying sound I ever hear at a sportsman drag race. Did you hear them while we ran? I didn't.
But it's a good noise. I love that "poketa-poketa-poketa" sound of a Stearman on final.George Schilling wrote:Some of the old radials can also be quiet noisy.