http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/01/16/and-that-mr-johnson-is-why-your-airport-idea-isnt-very-sensible/ The idle musings of John B Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:27:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/01/16/and-that-mr-johnson-is-why-your-airport-idea-isnt-very-sensible/comment-page-1/#comment-82809 Pete B Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:37:39 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/01/16/and-that-mr-johnson-is-why-your-airport-idea-isnt-very-sensible/#comment-82809 And yet ... <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/fairford.htm" rel="nofollow"> this place </a>, home to B1s, B2s, U2s (in the past) take-off point for a large proportion of the B52s that bombed Iraq (and Afghanistan) and abort site for the Space Shuttle, is right next to this place <a> this place </a>. With its "20,000 wintering waterbirds ... 21,000 wintering gulls, to vast numbers of breeding warblers along with Nightingales, Little Ringed Plover and Common Tern". And yet … this place , home to B1s, B2s, U2s (in the past) take-off point for a large proportion of the B52s that bombed Iraq (and Afghanistan) and abort site for the Space Shuttle, is right next to this place this place . With its “20,000 wintering waterbirds … 21,000 wintering gulls, to vast numbers of breeding warblers along with Nightingales, Little Ringed Plover and Common Tern”.

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