On Thursday, the day after the official launch the local paper was reporting not the triumph of the new machine but that the neighbours were again up in arms. The beast is noisier than the 355N'. No surprise there then for a craft far larger. The article went on to say that the unit were acknowledging a decibel or two higher noise level.
The neighbours have been whinging for years. First they waited til all the main employers in the area - the local arms manufacturers [RSAF, Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield and RO Royal Ordnance, Waltham] had shut up shop and fallen silent [ceasing almost daily doses of rattles of gunfire, rocket engines and explosions] and sacked everyone then started on the only guns still going off. The MP firearms branch at Lippitts Hill.
They finally drove the guns away from Lippitts [12 miles from London and a good road access] to Kent [25 not so good miles from London].
There are other reasons for the buy of course but now it seems that the Met have had to buy a helicopter big enough to take a reasonable number of firearms officers from Kent to Central London.....
Personally I think they are reaping their own harvest.
