Jet noise topic of meeting

NICEVILLE, Fla. - Sixty residents attended Eglin Air Force Base’s second town hall meeting Thursday to discuss the Joint Strike Fighter Training Center. About a third of Maj. Gen. C. R. Davis' presentation addressed plans to bed down the F-35s at Eglin and the options for noise mitigation. Davis assured the audience that the Air Force was doing all it could to consider ways to decrease noise. He said locating the center at other areas “begging for the airplane” is not an option. (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, 05/21/09)