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29th Jun 2019, 06:04

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compressor stall

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Originally Posted by Australopithecus

After YMML opened the Melways pages for adjacent empty land all carried a printed message “Future noise corridor”. The next time I bought a Melways in 1995 (?) that information had been removed. That’s about when houses were being built for the future “no aircraft noise” party members.

and if you go back to the mid 70s melways there’s a THIRD north south runway earmarked. Roughly where Airport Drive Porsche centre is now.
https://digitised-collections.unimel...14&isAllowed=y

edit. It wasn’t a third NS runway. Rather it seems that from the melways archives the Airport Drive north south runway was changed in 1990 to be the location of the current proposal.

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