On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:06:42 GMT, Juvat
wrote in Message-Id: :

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police,
(Krztalizer) blurted out:

Any idea who owns this or what it is doing? From under the landing pattern for
San Diego's International Airport, we watch dozens of airliners and corporate
jets gliding down to land.

Hope your observation point is not on short final to 27...I get a
chuckle thinking of the folks that live with spooled up 757s passing
less than 200 feet RA (radio/radar altitude) over their noggins. I'd
love to see a 747 on final to 27 (must have at some point since there
are special taxi lines labeled 747 at the threshold of 27).

Wonder what a house costs right there, wonder what conversations are
like inside those homes.

In the '50s with the advent of turbine powered aircraft, the B-707
noise assault on homes under the 4 approach paths to LAX 3 to 4 miles
distant from the threshold was so bad, that it was completely
impossible to have a conversation or hear the 6 o'clock news. I would
characterize the constant din of arriving aircraft overhead every 5
minutes for a couple of hours every night as being unhealthy and
EXTREMELY LOUD. Within a year or two, property values plummeted to
the point that minority residents were able to afford veritable
mansions in the once prestigious neighborhoods surrounding the
airport.

The homeowners' litigation against the City of Los Angeles raged for
decades. The city was ultimately forced(?) to purchase much of the
prime ocean front property under the departure path at depressed
prices. The city's reprehensible conduct in permitting the operation
of noisy aircraft to degrade the environment of residents' habitat to
such a degree that they were forced to move was/is the epitome of
hubris.

But like the effective hushing of police helicopters, that in the '70s
were so loud overhead on their nightly neighborhood patrols that they
would repeatedly rouse sleeping residents, today's airliners are as
quiet as many piston powered aircraft. In the end, the city's
arrogance provided minority citizens an otherwise unavailable
equal-rights opportunity at a time when local laws required 'negroes'
off the public streets after 10:00 pm. And the Great Experiment
trundles forward ...