TagNoise(196)
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2019-01-01Report to Congress on the aging of sound insulation
This FAA Report to Congress examines the aging of federally funded sound insulation installed in homes near airports to reduce aircraft noise, focusing on treatments installed before 2007 such as window and door replacements, weatherstripping, and other upgrades. The report identifies key factors affecting long-term effectiveness, including product quality, installer workmanship, deterioration over time, and lack of homeowner maintenance. It draws on research covering over 143,000 residences treated since the early 1980s and offers recommendations for repairing or replacing insulation that has exceeded its effective lifespan. -
2018-12-02Beacon Hill Seattle Community Noise Team presentation
The Beacon Hill Seattle Community Noise Team, a group of neighborhood residents working with the University of Washington, has been documenting the disproportionate impact of Sea-Tac Airport aircraft noise on their community. Building on decades of prior advocacy—including a landmark April 2000 report by Citizens for Aircraft Noise Equity—the team highlights that official noise impact assessments still rely on mathematical models rather than actual measured data. Beginning in October 2017, they launched a citizen science effort to conduct systematic, long-term noise measurements throughout the Beacon Hill neighborhood, with a focus on health effects and impacts on children's learning. -
Highline Times Kelliher Cartoon Airplane Noise over North Sea-Tac Park
A cartoon illustrated map of North SeaTac Park, signed by artist 'Kelliher,' showing the park's amenities including a soccer pitch, baseball fields, tennis courts, football fields, bicycle motocross, gym, track, nature trail, 9-hole golf, little league, and Tub Lake. The park is bounded by Highway 518, 24th Avenue S., Des Moines Way, and S. 136th Street, with a roaring airplane overhead referencing Sea-Tac Airport noise impacts on the area. -
2018-10-22Twin-Engine Widebody Jet on Final Approach at Sea-Tac Airport
A twin-engine widebody commercial jet, viewed from below and behind, is captured on final approach with all landing gear fully deployed. The aircraft features a red nose cone and red tail markings consistent with a major carrier livery, possibly American Airlines or a similar operator, but no registration or text is clearly legible. -
2018-08-06
Categorical Exclusions, Metroplexes, and Aircraft Noise Complaints
August 6, 2018 IN10947 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has initiated changes to airspace and flight procedures to take advantage of new technologies deployed under NextGen, a comprehensive air traffic modernization initiative that relies on satellite-based navigation and tracking to improve efficiency and airspace capacity. In some neighborhoods, however, FAA’s changes have increased overflights triggering -
cropped-airplane-large-circles-stretched-IMG 20180615 194804525-7
A commercial passenger jet photographed from below against a partly cloudy blue sky, with a digitally overlaid concentric elliptical ripple graphic centered on the aircraft, likely illustrating sound wave or radar signal propagation. The airline livery is not clearly legible at this resolution. -
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A commercial passenger jet, appearing to be a narrow-body aircraft possibly in Alaska Airlines livery, is photographed from below against a partly cloudy blue sky. Concentric elliptical rings, representing aircraft noise or radar signal propagation, are digitally overlaid and centered on the aircraft, likely created for illustrative use in an aviation noise or airspace policy context. -
cropped-airplane-large-circles-stretched-IMG 20180615 194804525-3.png
A commercial passenger jet, possibly a United Airlines aircraft based on livery coloring, photographed from below against a blue sky with clouds. Concentric elliptical rings are digitally overlaid on the image, visually representing sound wave propagation or radar signal emanating from the aircraft — consistent with noise-impact or flight-tracking policy illustration. -
airplane-&-large-circles-IMG 20180615 194804525
A commercial jet aircraft, viewed from below against a blue sky with scattered clouds, with concentric circle rings digitally overlaid centered on the aircraft, likely representing noise contours or radar signal propagation. The airline livery is not clearly legible, though the aircraft appears to be a twin-engine narrowbody or widebody jet.