Subject:  (Karlsson) EMF to airplanes -- Help Please (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 29 Sep 1998 155752 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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......An airport is one of the most highly concentrated sources of
EMF in our "Blue World."........guru says..............

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:21:55 EDT
From: Jeannine@aol.com
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Subject: EMF to airplanes -- Help Please

rbeavers@llion.org

Jeannine

Dear Roy,

I’m really hoping you or someone in your network can help me.  This is not
regarding cell towers and the regular things we think of, when we usually talk
about electro magnetic pollution.  This is about airplanes. 

I am electromagnetically sensitive to them now, too, in addition to everything
else.  But I can’t find any information about it.

In the Spring I joined two task forces for the Westchester Country Airport
Subcommittee -- of the Environmental Committee -- of the Westchester County
Board of Legisalators, in New York State.  One task force is Maintenance and
Expansion, the other, Environmental Impact.  As you can guess, there is a lot
of overlap.  Our charge was to gather information for the Enonomic Committee
to make recommendations to the Legislators regarding the future of our county
airport which is experiencing burgeoning growth.  It has grown from an
emergency landing strip for the military in ‘45, to having 11 planes tied down
in the 50’s, to hosting over 500 flights a day, now, and sporting a “World
Class Terminal” for commercial flights.

When I joined these task forces, I was not aware that airplanes pose an
electromagnetic danger.  I joined because I belong to the Purchase Friends
Meeting (I’m a Quaker), which shares most of its property line with the
airport.  The noise imparted by airport traffic has become worship stopping,
to say the least.  I hoped to get a Voluntary Restraint from Flying Order
imposed on small craft activity for one hour on Sundays.  

Once at work on the task forces, my eyes were opened to the other acknowledged
forms of pollution that air traffic creates besides noise, which were
identified as water pollution and air pollution and quality-of life
degridation due to increased road traffic as well as the other stuff.

At first, I never mentioned that I was electromagnetically sensitive, and when
I finally did, it was just referencing why I use speaker phone and have a hard
time generating a lot of comupter stuff.

Then one night it happened, I was tired and relaxing at the end of the day, in
mid-July, out on the deck with my husband. I was sitting in a chair, aluminum
swivel with plastic webbing, talking about the meeting I’d just had, saying
I’d be so glad when the airport work would be over in two weeks.  I felt sorry
for some of the people I was working with so lived right near the airport, but
I kind of thought we were exempt from the worst of its web of distruction,
eventhough we have a lot of noisy, annoying, over-flights.  We live about15
miles northwest of it and don’t drink the water it pollutes.  

We noted all the air traffic flying over the property, but then a large, low,
plane on takeoff, cleared the trees and approached on a path leading directly
over my head.

As it got quite close, I could feel an increasingly strong pulling on all my
insides.  It increased until, at the instant that the plane was directly over
my head, I got a sudden, sharp, stabbing pain in the center of my head, which
then veered to the gland behind my left ear, then traveled down my neck on the
left side, through my heart, leaving a good-sized quiver.  It took my creath,
then sped to my stomachg whgere it lodged and exzpanded, radiating down into
my7legs.

At the same time as all of that happened, there was the feeling tyhat my
stomach was pulled up into a magnetic attachmenbt to the plane., along with my
eyes whiched buldged and filled with pressure.  Immediately my body began to
reverberate with that leg-jellying nausea that usually takew over anyone
coming into contacty with an op0ern electric line.

I left sick for hours afterward, at least until I went to sleep for the night.
The effects of that first zap are long past (at least I hope they are), but
the fear definately lingers.

Thank God I had all my metal fillings removed, or all that stuff would
probably have conbnbected with my in my head.

I incident was the 2nd worst experience I’ve had, since I became
electromagnetically-sensitive, three years ago, last July. 

The scariest thing is that this plane didn’t seem particularly noisy.  I pray
to God that it is one of those planes with a hush kit and not some NEW quiet
plane, that’s just beginning top arrive!

I have, since that evening, also experienced milder reactions several times,
IN THE HOUSE, even. They have not been as severe, more focused on the
nauseating pulling on my stomach and head, but also scary, since there is not
way to protect myself from being struck.

I got a call recently from a woman who is also sentitive and she told me that
she gets reactions to, from inside her apartment.  They seem to be more
similar to the ones I get inside too, nopty as dramatic as that first one I
got.

She thinks the perpetrator is the plane’s radar.  I thought, and still think
it’s from the strength of the energy field that the engines exude.  

How can I find out more about this FAST>!

GE is applying for a new hangar to go up without an environbmental impact
study.  I want to mention EMF as a polluting danger of planes but I have
nothing to back me up.

A while ago, April 10, you got a note from Edward Maxey re: the EPRI 1993
Survey of Residential Field Magnetic Field Solurces #TR_102759,V1,V2, Sept.
‘93 The cost for each volume was $25,000 each for private use.  

I wonder if this would cover overhead airplane radiation.  
Is there anywhere I can find out about what sorts of fields different types of
planes emit.  

 

.  Are we expanding at a rate that will force, forget future generations, just
future legislators, and just a few terms down the road, to develop a 0 rate of
expansion because the environment is already abhorent

(I’ve let my activist roll in other issues slack, because I’ve been especially
exhausted, and therefore extra sensitive electromagnetic emissions from the
computer; so, I have been out-of-touch with my mail box, and thus, your web
site and cell tower issues for quite a while, I feel remiss to say; although
my husband has been kind enough to download your mail for me, from time-to-
time, on which I am behind, regretfully.) Sorry. Enough of the paranthetical
stuff.  Now to my problem.

Can you please let me kn ow quickly anything which might be of heap.

Thanks a million.

Regards,

Jeannine Karlsson




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