Gliding from my own field
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From: Glens o' Angus by way of LA
I bought an old brickworks with 30 acres next to my house and have built a strip and use the old factory as a hangar. I'm surrounded by a nature reserve and a sand quarry. One day I asked the head guy from the reserve if the plane bothers or is a danger to the wildlife? His response “For f**k sake the birds are not stupid, they’re gonna get the f*ck out of your way!.
Now that is my kind of environmentalist.
Now that is my kind of environmentalist.
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From: north of barlu
Usual unfounded rubbish
As soon as someone objects to any planning changes the first place they go is the environment, I can remember the introduction of red kites into Wycombe area.
As soon as this happend the usual suspects in the anti airfield community started telling the press that the aircraft were affecting the birds.
Twenty years on the reintroduction of the birds has been a great success dispite the alleged problems with aircraft.
Clearly a NIMBY with grasp any straw for publicity.
As soon as this happend the usual suspects in the anti airfield community started telling the press that the aircraft were affecting the birds.
Twenty years on the reintroduction of the birds has been a great success dispite the alleged problems with aircraft.
Clearly a NIMBY with grasp any straw for publicity.
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From: Glens o' Angus by way of LA
One day I asked the head guy from the reserve if the plane bothers or is a danger to the wildlife? His response “For f**k sake the birds are not stupid, they’re gonna get the f*ck out of your way!.
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From: Earth
Sad innit ... my part of deepest "quiet" rural Surrey leaves me deafened by chain saws, huge tractors and other agricultural equipment for large parts of the year with little I can do about it ....
