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Airmen and F-35 Lightning II aircraft from the Vermont Air National Guard will depart for Austria in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Sept. 4, to participate in the Airpower Air Show and a multinational training exercise the following week, the VTANG announced today.
“We recognize that an early departure can affect our community, and we are grateful for their patience and support,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Blair, 158th Operations Group Commander. “Our upcoming training will strengthen international ties and ultimately benefit our national security and global stability.”
Austria is the Vermont National Guard’s third partner country through the State Partnership Program, which links state National Guards with a partner nation’s military, security forces, and disaster response organizations in a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship.
“Our connections through the State Partnership Program have proven instrumental in building strong, lasting relationships,” Blair said. “Training alongside the Austrian Air Force not only improves tactical proficiency, advances interoperability and military cooperation, but also deepens mutual respect and reinforces shared objectives with our European Allies.”
Vermont needs 36,000 new primary homes developed over the next five years, according to an assessment conducted by the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development, the Journal-Opinion reported today.
Per the study, the median priced primary home in Vermont sold for $325,000 in 2023. In Orange County, that figure was $299,000 while in Caledonia County it was $232,284. At $460,500, the median home price in Chittenden County was over twice the median price of homes in Caledonia, Orleans, and Rutland counties and three times the median price in Essex County.
For renters, options are limited. The vacancy rate is 3%, among the lowest in the country. In Chittenden County, it was an estimated 1% in 2023.
There are 2,317 occupied rental homes in Orange County. Only Essex County and Grand Isle County have fewer occupied rental homes in Vermont.
VT farm sending workers to Belgium to study flax harvesting – “Farmers can grow flax,” reports Modern Farmer. “What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest.”
The publication visits farms across the country that are growing flax as a specialty crop. One South Royalton, Vermont farm took its employees to Belgium this summer to learn about growing flax at commercial scale.
Because flax has not been grown at a commercial scale here since the mid-twentieth century, many growers make the pilgrimage to Europe to learn how to farm it and use the specialized equipment (pullers, balers, and turners), Modern Farmer reports. Robin Maynard Seaver of Green Mountain Linen in South Royalton took her team to Belgium this summer to do that and to learn about how to use the puller she recently purchased. “There’s so much art to getting good fiber out of linen, because it’s not hard to grow, but you want the valuable long fiber.”
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I am hoping early tomorrow morning the GMB F-35’s perform a full AB vertical climb right after taking off and exceed Mach 1 which will result in multiple sonic booms.
Easy enough to wish for if you live nowhere near the flight path, I suppose. Many who live within earshot of the daily activities of the F35’s are not so happy about it.
Replying to JL. The base has been there since 1946. The 158th has been there since 1956. There has been F-102’s, B-57’s, F-4’s, F-16’s, and now the F-35’s. I am sure most of the complainers knew of the ramifications of high decibel sounds emitted by military aircraft before they purchased their properties. Yet they purchased said properties anyway.
Hey JL, ,sound of freedom, if you’re bothered by noise, why are you living by an airport.
Hope they make it since only about half are able to fly at any given time.
I find the critiques about the F-35’s and operations in VT being unappreciative and stupid. The protesters don’t care if these fighters with two engines protect them. Mindless.
In the Air Force with KC-135 refuelers and B’52’s with eight engines, the J-57 loudest in the AF. For 3-12 years I worked on them resulting hearing loss. Underneath one engine at 100% the noise would shake 3 feet on flight line concrete underneath them..If within 25 feet of the intake, you could be sucked in. I have also ran engines on the ‘52 for maintenance. When the ‘52 takes off, water is injected to increase thrust, videos show the black smoke. When the water us used up, clear exhaust afterwards.
Wouldn’t be interesting if these planes operated out of Burlington? The little F-35 with two engine noise level couldn’t complete. Noisy yes, but not as loud.
In flying with the ‘52’s for up to 24 hours airborne alert with nukes, many aerial refueling. I’ve been in the KC’s watching the refueling down on the ‘52 and in the ‘52 looking up.. Some videos shows the operation. To obtain flying status have to go thru the Altitude Chamber at 40,000 feet without pressure, only oxygen. Had to experience lack of oxygen, in 15 seconds you don’t feel anything without the mask. Your partner slaps the mask back on. Were told not to eat gassy foods before the Chamber. Chow Hall served Sauerkraut and hot dogs, very gassy. At 40,000 you relieved any stomach air and if you teeth had air under the fillings, a filling could pop out. A female nurse was very “polite” and didn’t release stomach gas and nearly passed out. Back at sea level they told her to release the air. So she did when lifting the rear end. Then experienced rapid decompression, twith the oxygen masks, the air fogged up quickly. This was at Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth TX. Got on flying status afterwards and hazardous duty pay, $55 a flight. That was more than our pay in two weeks.
In 1957, I was subject to the draft, draft board in Woodstock. They were hot on my tail for the military. If drafted, it was the Army. I didn’t want to dig fox holes. I enlisted in the Air Force as I like airplanes and flying. Got far better career status than imagined and live it to today. Assigned to SAC (Strategic Air Command) I was stationed in TX & OK. VT is about 2000 miles closer to Russia that the southern states. Makes sense to have a base in Burlington. Caribou Maine has Loring AFB and another, Thule Air Base, Greenland and Griffiss AFB in Rome NY. Why not VT?
I’ve been at over 50,000 feet (KC-135) , on alert duty during the Cold War (Russia) with B-52’s was told to climb aboard after engines were running with the flight crew and would be airborne withing 10 minutes. My duty was to maintain the ‘52 while on alert status. When the alert horn sounded at any time, if in bed, jump into my altered clothes and boots (zippered everything) and be at the place withing 5 mins, getting the plane ready for the flight crew. In the ‘52 flying at night under a sifull moon and the upturned stationary wing with thee engines was a sighrt never to forget.
All this happened at about 20 years old. Got responsibility quick especially when responsible of a billion dollar aircraft for those mentioned years. I don’t think about robbing or killing anyone. Need the draft again. As a result I know that I made this country safer and including the millions of others in cemeteries. This is my mental position being a Constitutional Conservative and seeing all other political crapology being unreal, without values.
For the people that don’t want military noise, get a life. That noise protected you. I know the noise a B’52 or KC-135 taking off being noisy, it’s music. People that don’t know should get informed.
Here’s a video (one of many) about my world. Been involved with it all. On the page are more such videos to realize what th AF does. I note these videos show planes taking off about 1 minute or to apart. In my time we had three ‘52’s on the runway 15 seconds apart. These videos are wimpy but basically is somewhat of what I was involved in.
B-52 Bomber Operations • BALTOPS 2019 (refueling)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOCA8ZST7fY (6:32)
Not going to elaborate more about my military experiences. So much more though. In my time this is what we had to do. Now look at the crap that’s happening. America lost devotion between these times. I wouldn’t trade places. I have a rich mental life.