Do You Want F-35 Test Bombs Dropping On Vermont?

Do you want F-35 test bombs droping on Vermont? Ten years ago I lived in northern Vermont. My mother’s house and yard was adjacent to the Ethan Allen U.S. Army National Guard Firing Range on Bolton Mountain, the other side of the Mtn. From Bolton Ski Resort. 3.9 miles up a dirt road to get to Mom’s house, and when the Army was doing off M 155s the ground shook and the house shool, Now, even if the F-35 jets only drop 2,000 pound test bombs, the ground is going to shake and your house is going to shake – and they will most likely chose a rural area to drop them, not the city of Burlington.

So, is the City of Burlington, which has voted to not stop the U.S. Air Force from chosing the Burlington International Airport as their new home, a “defendant” in any legal cause of action whereby you might claim that the U.S. Air Force destroyed the “reasonable habitability” of your home in rural Vermont, outside of Burlington? Remember, F-35 strike fighter jets fly at 1200 miles per hour, do your math, and they can fly from Burlington to Brattleboro in 7.5 minutes. Where will they drop the test bombs?

Excerpt from Reuters.com Oct. 30, 2013 (I’m at the public library and their apparent child controls in the adult section won’t let me cut and paste or create paragraphs) “An F-35 B-model jet released the Guided Bomb Unite-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II Bomb from its internal weapons bay while flying at around 25,000 feet, successfully smashing into a tank parked on the ground, the Pentagon’s F-35 program office said in a statement. It took 25 seconds to hit the target. This guided weapons delivery test of a GBU-12 marks the first time the F-35 truly became a weapon system, said Marine Corps Major Richard Rusnok, the pilot who flew the plane during the weapons test Tuesday.”