A sustainable future for everyone under the flight path. We know where you want to go. But read our motto. After seven years building the largest historical library of any major airport community in America, we’ve learned two things: Major improvements are possible. You are being constantly distracted from making them. Here are the five
Where’s my John Dingell?
Unless you’re from Michigan, you’re probably unaware of John Dingell, a congressman from the west side of Detroit and something of a legend on many levels. Some knew him as a friend of labor. Some as an insider with the auto industry. Some as one member of a political dynasty which persists to this day.
A new model of community environmental grants
The Port of Seattle is a major driver of economic impacts in the area. However it is undoubtedly the main driver of environmental impacts in the Highline Communities. This gives them both the resources and the responsibility to do more to help the communities that endure those negative impacts. What they lack is community knowledge and
An introduction to our movie: Under The Flight Path [TEASER]
Watch the first six minutes of our documentary movie Under The Flight Path: A Community History of Sea-Tac Airport. Final release scheduled for May, 2024. Please sign up for our mailing list and help us spread the word. [TEASER]
Mission Critical?
A proposal to fund a West Coast Bullet Train should be viewed only with cautious optimism by airport communities. When this Washington Democratic Delegation proposal for funding a West Coast Bullet Train showed up, I immediately thought of how unreliable it has been to take AmTrak to Vancouver, BC over the past three decades. But
NOMBY
Every year in Seattle, there is the SeaFair Festival and that means the return of the Navy’s Blue Angels precision flying team which deploys their show from King County International Airport. Exciting stuff in more ways than one. For five days that means a dramatic change in flight paths at Sea-Tac Airport, as commercial traffic
Under The Flight Path
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SeaTacNoise.Info receives 4Culture grant for documentary
Press release: SeaTacNoise.Info has been chosen by 4Culture.Org for a grant to complete "Under The Flight Path: A Community History of Sea-Tac Airport".
2023 Community Health asks for Seattle/King County Department of Health
Some research we would like to see from Seattle/King County Department of Health, including indoor air quality and the efficacy of Port Packages both old and new. The article discusses how politics tends to shift the focus of research and concludes with the need for Magic Wand Experiments--an open discussion of what work is truly needed--in order to move the process forward.
Wrangling over the “Ramboll Report”
The are two very different documents we will refer to back and forth in this article. To (try to) avoid confusion, we will refer to the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report as ‘the KCDOH Study’ (because that is how the Port of Seattle referred to it.) We will refer to the summary