Does anybody actually know how long these '100' or so have been active enough to seriously want Essendon Airport closed? Looking at Google Earth Mapping seems like there are a lot more than 100 living very close & yet only a handful of 'noisy' residents are doing (trying to) anything about it.
Aviation, semething that was embraced many many years ago by our founding fathers who realised that flying was the only way to cover vast distances within this great land in a timely manor, let us now close & seriously restrict airports 'cause they are too noisy for the few then decide how we can transverse this land without disturbing anybody!
Progress, sometimes people put a minus in front of it!
FG