Funny, I only see one reference to the climate, and it is in reference to the budget differential. Funny how you get to pick and choose when Gaia is used derogatorily, and the environmental concerns that bother you are not(see VW and LA pollution). Are you on a planet where environmental concerns are not an issue most of the time? Anyway, I disagree with your assessment that is it about Gaia at all. There were just two plane crashes involving the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, so safety issues are raised at such times.
That's because one of the last times John Avalos brought up this stupid ordinance, he proposed it on environmental grounds, saying that the jets were super-polluters and should not be allowed to besmirch his city.
Same idiot, same regulation, different claimed reason. He's proposed banning fighters from passing over SF repeatedly, usually on environmental grounds, sometimes to 'protest the war in Iraq,' etc.
Further, those aircraft, again, are no different than any others passing over SF on a regular basis in terms of how they behave and what they're allowed to do. You're not allowed to stunt, aerobat, or show off over a populated area, period. Even the simple slow barrel roll is banned. The Blue Angels and other fighters are simply transiting the area on their way somewhere else. What this idiot wants is for the fighters to go way, way out of the way instead of directly overflying in a straight line, just because they're fighters.
Further, the Blue Angels transiting an area should be the *least* worrisome military aircraft. Air show aircraft for the military are the best maintained with components being replaced far before their usual times, just to make sure they're reliable. No, these things fly over SF all the time and *they're* the ones he should be worrying about, since they're all older than most people on this forum and due to budget cuts they're not as well maintained as one would like.
Or these things, which fly into SF every damn day and are some of the worst maintained planes in the world:
I'll believe his regulation is for safety when he bans Air Vanuatu and similarly unsafe crap airlines from SFO.
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I remember a news story about an RAAF jet managing to shatter almost every window in a suburb it was flying over. People weren't happy.
That's because the pilot went supersonic in the thing. Not permitted in peacetime in US airspace at the altitudes this guy is seeing the fighters. Military policy generally limits even training flights to subsonic over populated areas; in the few places they do allow it, the fighters have to be well over FL310, or over 31,000 feet above ground level.
Civilians are generally not permitted to go supersonic at *all* over land in the US. Military policy is only slightly looser. This is why Braniff had to fly the Concorde (yes, an American airline had Concorde service!) between Dallas and Washington completely subsonic.