New aircraft-noise rule would do little to quiet the skies: government report

By Jon Hemmerdinger 24 August 2020 A ban on aircraft that do not meet new noise standards would do little to reduce overall aircraft noise and would impose costly requirements on airlines and aerospace manufacturers. That is according to a 20 August report from the US Government Accountability Office into the likely impact of a

A neurobiological mechanism linking transportation noise to cardiovascular disease in humans

Michael T Osborne, Azar Radfar, Malek Z O Hassan, Shady Abohashem, Blake Oberfeld, Tomas Patrich, Brian Tung, Ying Wang, Amorina Ishai, James A Scott … Show more European Heart Journal, Volume 41, Issue 6, 7 February 2020, Pages 772–782, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz820 Published: 26 November 2019 Article history Views Cite Permissions Icon Permissions Share Abstract Aims Chronic

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

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”)

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