RAF been here for long time
I found the recent discussions about the complaints from newcomers (and I include myself in that group as I came here in 1990) about the noise from helicopters interesting as, a few years ago, the local paper in the east of the county had a similar run of letters.
They stopped when a 90-plus year old lady wrote in to say that the RAF had been in the county in some form or other since 1929.
She pointed out that she, and a very few others of her age and above, could actually state that they have a genuine complaint about the air noise as the RAF had come after them.
She did question that if people come into Shropshire without fully researching where they want to live, then perhaps they only have themselves to blame, and she also doubted that Goering and the Luftwaffe would have been so tolerant of such letters in the paper had the World War II result gone the wrong way.
Both my daughters' earliest words included "copter" and I think it would be a great loss if we were to lose our flying friends. They certainly keep the burglars away.
Alan Chesters, Newport
