In Oz we call them NIMBYs, the Not In My Back Yard brigade (but it's ok in someone else's back yard of course).
When he moved in in 1977, I wonder if it crossed his mind that the property was cheap, and I wonder if he even stopped to consider that jet and helicopter equipped airport a mile from his house might be the reason for that?
rotordog, that was a fantastic post. Pity the papers dont run with it. Why don't you consider emailing it the media that ran the story in the first place? Or better still, a rival paper?
I remember a story of a resident near Amberly Airforce Base in SE Queensland in Oz who complained about all the F111s (now there is a stealthy aeroplane!). The base commander invited him in to show him a huge aerial photograph of the area, gave him a red pen and told him that if he marked his house with a big red circle, they would place a no fly zone around his house quite happily.
Resident looked at the photograph, but couldn't find his house. In fact, he couldn't find his whole suburb! "Ah...", said the base commander, "this photograph was taken five years after F111 operations commenced here at Amberely, so if you don't own one of the six houses on the photograph, you moved here well after the F111."
Unfortunately, holding the moral highground has been no defence against the Mr Ables of this world and residents moving in around pre existing airfields have caused the shutdown of many in Oz. Most notably, this included the cessation of full time operations from the world's oldest operational airfield at Point Cook in Victoria as of 1994, Schofields in Sydney, about to add Hoxton Park in sydney, and to us rotorheads, the biggest treasure of all: the Sydney CBD Heliport.
Accordingly, I declare a jihad on Mr Able and his ilk!!
