Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-l7hp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T19:10:12.798Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

An end to aircraft noise?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Extract

Everyone agrees that the noise from aircraft has become an unreasonable nuisance to people living around airports. Because of it aviation is now extremely unpopular in some quarters and there is energetic public resistance both to the extension of existing airports and to the creation of new ones. The restriction on night take-off of jet aircraft from London airport is another illustration of the problem. This public attitude is understandable and it is tending to obscure the fact that transport aviation has made a great contribution to improving the quality of life. Taking one small example, without aviation the package tour holiday, which represents good value for money, would hardly be possible.

The purpose of this paper is to take the advantages of aviation for granted and to explain that it is technically feasible to build a subsonic aircraft and engine combination quiet enough not to annoy the public.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1972 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Walker, G. J. (University of Tasmania). Effect of wake-wake interactions on the noise generated by an axial flow compressor. Paper to be presented at the First International Symposium on Airbreathing Engines, Marseilles, June 1972.Google Scholar