Rumbling skies
We looked at the increase in early morning flights after listener, Sarah Fisher, wrote to us in November last year.
Plans for a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow, to open by 2020, are due to be announced in the next few weeks.
If it gets the go-ahead, residents in inner London should benefit, but millions of people in outer London and the Home Counties will either hear aircraft noise for the first time or an increase in aircraft flying directly overhead, says The Times today.
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Commercial flights are an annoying reminder of how careless we are of the world we inhabit. Far worse are the killer planes that regularly defile the sky above where I live, in Devon. There is no excuse for these abominations.
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It's not just London. Once, while walking with the dogs in Mortimer Forest, Shropshire, about as rural as you can get, our quiet was suddenly shattered as a warplane suddenly roared up over a hill only a few metres above the trees [you could count the rivets]. Wales regularly suffers these 'rehearsing to kill people' clowns who care nothing about people or animals below them as they out-compete to fly as low as possible. Lethal boy racers.
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At what point do we say enough is enough and put a limit on the total number of flights allowed in our airspace in a year? Do we just keep building more runways and more terminals as demand increases? When do we stop?
If we decide upon a number, with the increasing efficiency of engines, we should hopefully see a gradual reduction in both chemical and noise pollution. Oh, unless they build super jumbos...
I'm not against planes, I'm going on one on Saturday, but I do find it a bit ridiculous that it is cheaper for me to take a polluting jet up to Edinburgh than jump on the train. Stop the increasing number of runways and build some more train tracks.
I lived in Reading for 4 years and worked there for even longer. Although nostalgia occasionally kicks in, I'm glad concord no longer roars across the sky.
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