Thanks, Jane, for posting this interesting concept. As I've labelled this
an OFF posting, maybe you folks will permit me to let off a little personal
steam re aviation?
As a young man, I was keen on aircraft (Air Scouts and compulsory service in
the RAF). Now, I'm furious that I pay an enormous tax on diesel for my car,
which I regard as essential as I live in the sticks, while overhead on the
'Green' air channel for transatlantic flights I can sometimes see a dozen
contrails in as many minutes from 747s carrying holidaymakers to or from
Orlando (essential journey?) and burning tax-free kerosene. Similarly,
amateur Biggleses and parachutists' planes fly low over my garden from the
nearby airfield, making a racket audible across a wide swathe of 'peaceful'
countryside for which I would immediately be pulled over if it emanated from
my car. As for microlights... !
Am I just thinking like a whingeing wrinkly ? What opinions from elsewhere
?
Tony N-S.
