Study: F-35 twice as loud as F-15

[unhappycamper]

The F-35's noise level has already drawn complaints from some communities, including a town near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.


Study: F-35 twice as loud as F-15
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Oct 27, 2008 8:48:53 EDT

The Air Force is very quiet about a noisy fighter.

At military housing areas and base schools on Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., noise from F-35 Lightning II operations will be twice as loud as current Eglin F-15 flights, reaching 83 decibels.

Off base, F-35 noise will be even louder, reaching up to 90 decibels in civilian neighborhoods under an Eglin flight path.

All that is revealed in an environmental impact study prompted by plans to set up the joint F-35 pilot and maintenance training school at Eglin.

But the impact of the study goes beyond Eglin, as the Air Force looks to stand up F-35 units at bases across the country. The service has not yet decided where that would be, but is looking at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska; Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.; Moody Air Force Base, Ga.; Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho; and Shaw Air Force Base, S.C.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/10/airforce_f35_basing_102608/%2e



uhc comment: Before you fuckers set up a training school for this POS, you might want to figure out how to pay for them. At $239,000,000 a pop they are a bit cheaper than the $355,000,000 F-22, but they are still expensive. (And they still don't fly above 40,000 feet.)

[icnorth]

1. Alaska would be appropriate...

When Palin is reassigned back to Wasilla and her old job as SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) she will need reinforcements when Putin's head appears on the horizon.

[MercutioATC]

2. They're fighters...I don't care how loud they are.

They're purpose-built to do one or two things well. Expanding the goal to make them "environmentally friendly" weakens their other properties which is silly if one is building a warplane.