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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff
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P3 aircraft emit significant exhaust pollution from their 4 turbo-prop engines - this pollution can be seen as "smoke" in some of video footage.
Will P3's own exhaust "smoke" along its low-level flight path do more harm to environment beneath that flight-path, than P3 research results benefit that environment?
Posted by: j3cfii | June 29, 2011 8:24 AM
j3cfii, your accusation of hypocrisy is risible.
They are generating a small amount of pollution to measure and hopefully avoid a lot more.
Posted by: jupiter9 | June 29, 2011 1:05 PM
I don't think you have much to worry about in Baltimore, given they are only flying 14 flights in a month. I worked on P-3s for 27 years in Southern Maryland, and they fly there all the time. I live in Jacksonville, Fl. now, home of the biggest P-3 base in the world, and there are 50 or more flying around daily, every day. They fly right over my house doing touch and go's at Cecil Field. True they do produce smoke, which is a pollutant, but it's no where near enough to harm you as a single source of pollution, and again, you are talking about only 14 flights. Rest easy!
Posted by: pjb99 | June 29, 2011 4:00 PM