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The Navy’s recent increase of low altitude flights on Whidbey Island has resulted in noise levels high enough to cause pain, deafness and ill health. Prolonged exposure to high level noise is linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

(see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898791/ )

Senator Barbara Bailey’s column in the Whidbey News Times has it wrong. As a resident under an Outlying Field Coupeville (OLF) flight path, I can inform Ms. Bailey that these Growlers’ jet noise permeates the indoor environment of our home, our schools and the areas outside with an e...