Photo credit: Karl Solano by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Nearly a year ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Manhattan’s Downtown Heliport will soon...
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Airport neighbors report restless nights of sleep
Photo credit: Stas Knop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our posts already know that there are studies that link aircraft noise to loss of sleep, but I...
Vermont city trying to protect residents from F-35s
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Madelyn Brown, U.S. Department of Defense by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Residents in Chittenden County, Vermont, have been complaining for...
Amazon delivery drones a scourge of Texas town
Photo credit: JESHOOTS.com by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The complete headline of this New York Post article is: "Amazon’s delivery drones become scourge of Texas town: It sounds like a giant hive of bees.” The article reports on Amazon’s use of...
Archer Aviation reveals LA vertiport sites
Photo credit: Roberto Nickson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The AIN Media Group website reported that Archer Aviation has announced planned vertiport sites in Los Angeles. Archer plans to launch an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) network...
New Jersey Girl Scouts focus on noise pollution
Photo credit: Longxiang Qian by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The author of this article, Lori Comstock, informs us that people living in North Jersey have easy access...
How one air taxi became quiet
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Engineering.com website reports on how one air taxi manufacturer worked to make its battery-powered electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) quiet. The Joby Aviation S4 “hexacopter”...
Corporate denial of aircraft noise pollution
Photo credit: Azim Islam by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with my comments that individuals living with aircraft noise say that...
Colorado city sues FAA over airport
Photo credit: Deactived Account by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Environmental issues and the desire to build affordable housing on airport land resulted in Boulder,...