Photo credit: Valery Anatolievich by Abby Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities New York City Council will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 16 on bills to ban nonessential helicopter traffic at NYC-run heliports, as well as other helicopter-issue bills...
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NASA wants to know if air taxis will annoy you
A Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft over Japan. Photo credit: Marine Corps Cpl. Kyle Chan, U.S. Department of Defense. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "NASA Wants to Know if Air Taxis Will Annoy You," is the title of this article in FLYING...
Dutch court rules that airport must reduce noise pollution
Photo credit: Amin, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It's no surprise to read in the first paragraph of this AP article that the Dutch...
Highlights from the 2024 aviation symposium
Photo credit: Guryan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Last month, I spoke about aviation noise at the University of California, Davis Aviation Noise & Emissions symposium in Palm Springs, California. I was only able to attend one day of the...
Japanese taxpayers foot American military’s noise bill
Photo credit: Somchai Kongkamsri by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies How much has it cost the Japanese government to host American troops at five United States military...
Reducing the ‘roar’ of aviation noise: better, but not enough
Photo credit: Oleksandr P by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In this Airways Magazine article, author Fabrizio Spicuglia informs us that aircraft noise has been reduced...
Flights contribute to noisiest cities in America rankings
Photo credit: Chait Goli by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Ranking first on any list usually leads to boasting. Even making the "top ten" in a list brings joy, but I...
Colorado bill seeks to reduce impacts from aviation
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 To the many groups across the country combating the impacts of aircraft noise and pollution, the title...
Aircraft noise disturbs Arizona residents
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies We have directed our readers to a large number of studies that link aircraft noise to adverse health impacts....