A sustainable future for everyone under the flight path We know where you want to go. But read our motto. After building the largest historical library of any airport community in the world, we’ve learned two things: Major improvements are possible. You are being constantly distracted from making them. Here are the five guiding strategies
Unless you’re from Michigan you may not be aware 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
2023-11-29
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
Watch the first six minutes of our documentary movie Under The Flight Path: A Community History of Sea-Tac Airport. Final release scheduled for Summer, 2025. Please sign up for our mailing list and help us spread the word. [TEASER]
2023-08-17
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
2023-08-03
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: A Community History of Sea-Tac Airport. Help us complete the first comprehensive documentary of any major US airport; the impacts on the cities and the people.
2023-06-30
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".
2023-06-29
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.
2023-06-02
In this article, we will refer back and forth between two very different documents. The first is the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report. The second is a Powerpoint® review of that study the Port Commission received in May of 2021. A Timeline In 2019, the State of Washington passed HB 1109. This
