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Are the airplanes getting louder and lower?

No. And maybe. Objectively speaking, individual aircraft flyovers near Sea-Tac Airport are not getting lower or louder. (Before you click away in disgust, note that some of our members live as low as ‘760’, ie. when correcting for sea level less than 400 feet directly under the belly of an aircraft. No one is more

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FQUROH: A Flight Demonstration Project for Airframe Noise Reduction Technology

FQUROH: A Flight Demonstration Project for Airframe Noise Reduction Technology – YouTube To make future aircraft quieter, JAXA has been developing airframe noise reduction technologies. The footage introduces JAXA’s FQUROH flight demonstration project for airframe noise reduction technology. (March 2018) (FQUROH stands for the “Flight Demonstration of Quiet Technology to Reduce Noise from High-lift Configurations”)

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Aircraft Noise: The Ailment And The Treatment

By Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Chair, Aircraft Noise Abatement Group of New York and New Jersey (ANAG) | Hearing Rehabilitation Quarterly – Special Edition (2001) THE NEW MEANING OF F.A.A. The summer of 2000 was marked by an unusually high number of aircraft delays, especially at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. These delays continued

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Chronic Noise Exposure and Reading Deficits Cornell May 1997

ABSTRACT: First- and second-grade schoolchildren chronically exposed to aircraft noise have significant deficits in reading as indexed by a standardized reading test administered under ...