[SandRat]

Sheesh! What a bunch of Cry-Babies.

[Windcatcher]

I'm sure the hundreds of Boeing workers who will have jobs putting this baby together GIVE A RAT'S BEHIND about how some lib reporterette feels about it's noise. Really.

[ASOC]

LOL

I grew up in Tucson. DM first had B-36, B-47 and later B-52/KC-135 wings -- and not too many transplanted CaliFlowers or East Coast #itchers.

I can still remember just minutes after the announcement of the JFK shooting every B-52/KC-135 lit off - we thought it was the end of the world.

Tucson is a lot larger and surrounds the base on two sides....but it was there FIRST.

I used to visit DM in uniform, and would from time to time get noise comments - my reply "Well, I do know for a fact that Soviet aircraft are much nosier, especially after they have just killed your entire family....I like to think of this as the sound of freedom."

Battlefield victory through absolute air domination!