[CPEO-MEF] North Carolina flyover

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Carteret commissioners get an earful

Jannette Pippin
New Bern Sun Journal (NC)
August 9, 2006

Military officials hold flight demonstrations to show how loud jets can 
be over development

BOGUE - Members of the Carteret County Board of Commissioners could hear 
the approaching EA-6B Prowler aircraft before they could see it. As it 
passed Tuesday evening 400 feet above the 12-acre Mariner's Bay 
subdivision it drowned out any hope of conversation.

Soon after, an AV-8B Harrier pilot followed suit as he prepared for his 
first ship-board qualifications.

As county leaders peered through the treetops, they heard the military's 
viewpoint on a proposed residential development that would put homes 
close to training operations at the Marine Corps' landing field off the 
N.C. 24 corridor in Bogue.

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Lenny Siegel
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