Comments on: Citywide F-35 Panel Meet Set

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:29:08 +0000

JJ – the elected officials of the City of Boise proved you totally wrong.

They consciously choose to not show up and not listen to the people they were elected to represent!

The Air National Guard also choose to avoid the very people they say they are concerned about and are suppose to protect.

I hope your leaders in Kuna do better. (sic)

By: Pull Back the Curtain

Pull Back the Curtain — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:06:39 +0000

Forget the Paris Air Show hype, another F-35 flight suspension due to problems:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/john-mccain-concerned-over-latest-f-35-grounding/article/2626889

Plus:
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/06/14/what_went_wrong_with_the_f-35_lockheed_martins_joint_strike_fighter_111589.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/06/the_f35_even_the_engine_is_compromised.html

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 04:55:11 +0000

JJ – you must live in Kuna. In Boise we do not have anyone in the city government with the traits you describe.

By: Opinion or Fact or Salesman Speak?

Opinion or Fact or Salesman Speak? — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:46:05 +0000

The airport director has an opinion published in the newspaper a few days ago. Now if she wanted to opine about fishing it’s cool to put it in the opinion section. She a smart lady and I bet we could learn something from her opinions on a number of topics. However when embroiled in a problem of your own making, and claiming so many others are wrong, shouldn’t the airport director be publishing her facts as a new release? Since it is her official work, and her office is the source of many of the official facts, why not publish these facts as an official release so the newspaper officials and others can fact check her official facts and see who is in fact wrong?

By: Oligarchs Rule

Oligarchs Rule — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:16:41 +0000

Zero chance of getting Emporer Bieter there if he knows it’s a group of concerned citizens.
Now, if he’d been told there was a golden shovel, or award awaiting him…

By: jj

jj — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 05:53:08 +0000

I look forward to the meeting and seeing our City leaders who care about the citizens respond to citizen questions, ideas, support and concerns. Certainly they will attend since they have been elected/appointed to represent all of us, I don’t believe they would neglect such a duty.

By: Heinrich Wiebe

Heinrich Wiebe — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 23:35:40 +0000

Burlington Airport buys and destroys community. Why would it be different here?

http://www.wcax.com/story/28849506/burlington-airport-home-deconstruction-begins

By: Really?

Really? — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:04:50 +0000

Easterner –
Really – I thought the F35’s could fly?

While not stationed at Mt. Home they fly in and out of Mt Home. So making the 5 min flight to Boise should be within the flight capability of the aircraft?

Or maybe it is not. Maybe it would over stress the air frame and the mayor and all his buddies.

By: New Leadrship

New Leadrship — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:53:35 +0000

This simply needs to become a long lasting vote the bums out campaign.

By: Easterner

Easterner — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:50:36 +0000

Actually Editor, the Idaho Falls presence will be an F35 visiting from Luke AFB (as detailed on the air show website).

I’ll BET the Idaho Falls air show team will show some wonderful Idaho hospitality to the F-35 crew and pilot. They will surely invite him to LAND, visit, REFUEL, have some snacks, do some PR, and then TAKE OFF at their leisure. And I bet the team will accept. If they do any fancy flying, they probably even land and take off a day or two before hand for some practice, right?
Of course the plane could do in-air-refueling and simply do a fly-by as is implied by the note, but I bet not. A beverage?
Looks like an opportunity to compare f18 and an f35.

By the way, Luke AFB is adjacent to Glendale (Phoenix). On a map it looks a lot like the Boise airport being adjacent to a city. Maybe someone in CLB group could go to Glendale and record some landings and take-offs. Residences are within a short distance of the runway there too- and that metro area certainly has more residents than Boise.

Since Bob and others think the AF just sends these planes anywhere on a whim, maybe the CLB can contact that team and ask, “Hey while you’re in Idaho why don’t you just stop in Boise with your jet? Do a few touch and goes in the morning and then enjoy the views.”
🙂