IS TUCSON A MILITARY TOWN OR A SCIENCE CITY?
“Science City” – that’s how Tucson should be known and branded, says UA Dean of Science Joaquin Ruiz.
[Read more →]Warplanes on display above city this week
“Does Davis-Monthan really want to be a good neighbor to the Tucson community?” asks the website of Tucson Forward, a grass-roots group. The question was asked in an online entry critical of such air-show practice runs.
[Read more →]More Planes!
Calling the expansion of the program “unsupervised,” Gomez thinks Operation Snowbird is perhaps being conducted outside of federal environmental laws.
“We’ve raised that issue (with the Air Force),” he says.
[Read more →]AZ bioscience industry added jobs
Just a reminder of our mission. It isn’t all about “NO F-35s”. Read our mission statement.
We are a grassroots group that aims to protect Tucson and its neighborhoods from health damaging noise and safety concerns related to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. We aim to foster economic, scientific and technological development of Tucson in a way that supports and promotes a good quality of life for all its citizens. See article from the 2/3/11 Arizona Daily Star.
McKeon Submits Local Defense Priorities to House Armed Services and House Appropriations Committees
http://www.mckeon.house.gov/singlepage.aspx?NewsID=1471
U.S. Air Force B-2 Stealth Bomber Advanced Tactical Data Link – $14.6M
The Advanced Tactical Data Link (ATDL) on the B-2 would profoundly alter how these stealth aircraft like the B-2, F-35, and F-22 communicate with each other in a high threat environment by …
[Read more →]Is There a Problem with the Culture at D-M?
Over the last two months there have been two fatal accidents involving D-M airmen, one involving a motorcycle and the other involving a car, and a suicide. Now we hear that some D-M airmen are smoking Spice, a Marijuana-mimicking substance, while inspecting A-10s and bombs at the base warehouse. Is there a problem with the culture at D-M that might impact the safety of Tucson citizens as their aircraft fly over large heavily-populated areas of the City?
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