How loud have the F-35 fighter jets been compared to the F-16s?
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The first three of 20 F-35s to be stationed at Truax Field on the North Side arrived at its new home during a celebration on Tuesday afternoon.
Twenty jets will begin their assignment with the Air National Guard base in Madison over the coming year.
Truax's former F-16 Fighting Falcons replaced the A-10 Thunderbolt and were the eighth plane type flown by the Air National Guard unit since it was formed in 1948.
The planes will replace aging F-16s that had been stationed at the base since 1992 but which left for good in October.
Pilots from other units around the country will fly F-16s out of Madison in support of the guard’s homeland defense mission while the unit gets ready to fly F-35 jets.
The question of jet noise helped push the council to shoot down the rezoning twice already — first in August 2021 and again in February.
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We can take pride in Madison being ranked best place to live in America by livability.com. As Avani Kalra writes in a July 28 Wisconsin State …
The proposal for Raemisch Fatrm is controversial due to loss of agricultural land and because some contend new residents would be subjected to unhealthy levels of noise from U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter jets to be stationed at Truax Field starting in 2023.
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For a second time, the council denied a rezoning request Tuesday to convert a 64-acre property into single- and multi-family housing over concerns about its proximity to Truax Field.
“You can’t live with them!”
In an order released Wednesday, Judge William Conley sided with the National Guard, ruling the agency’s environmental assessment of the projects met the standards of federal environmental law.
Madison has a history of non-binding ballot referendums. For example, the 2021 spring election had four advisory referendums involving the siz…
According to Military News, the United States has over 283 deployed F-35 fighter jets.
The proposal seeks to find out "any and all ways" Dane County can protect against PFAS chemicals getting into residents' water from contaminated soil at the airport.
Madison's case against the F-35s continues to grow. Now they are threatening one of our most hallowed institutions: development.
Madison would rather play politics with F-35s than alleviate homelessness in the latest cartoon from Phil Hands.
As highlighted by the State Journal story on Sunday "Future noise concerns could scuttle housing," Madison City Council members should be than…
A stretch of East Washington Avenue soon to be served by rapid transit is ripe for redevelopment. But the arrival of F-35 fighter jets in 2023 could subject much of the area to unhealthy levels of noise.