Aero-Linx!

Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into cyber-aero-space for awhile.

Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via Aero-Linx. Suggestions for future Aero-Linx segments are always welcome, as well.

Aero-Linx: EAA Chapter 1288's NIMBY Page

Sadly, at a great many airports throughout the country, a small (but invariably disproportionately vocal) portion of society believes that moving next to an active airport that's been in place and operational for decades gives them the "right" to dictate how the facility operates, or demand that it be shut down. Not once in recorded human history has an airport just popped up out of the ground in the middle of the night in a subdivision, yet to hear a NIMBY tell it, they "never expected" to hear aircraft operating despite living a mile off the end of a runway!

NIMBY... it stands for "Not In My Back Yard!" or "Negatively Informed Morons Belching Yarns." EAA Chapter 1288 has been battling NIMBY issues for quite some time and their NIMBY page provides some excellent discussion of the NIMBY Issue.

FMI: www.eaa1288.org/Education/nimbys.cfm