Photo credit: Shirley de Jong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I am often asked by people impacted by aircraft noise when their local...
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“Sonic Sea” screening
Image courtesy of Sound Defense Alliance by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of The Quiet Coalition posts know that noise does not just harm humans--research has...
U.S. Army jets are stressing out lizards
Photo credit: Koopasteve licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It is understood that aircraft noise, including the noise from military jets,...
Dublin residents protest noisy flight paths
Photo credit: Tolka Rover licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies To read that another airport, this time the Dublin Airport, is being protested...
House representatives introduce the Safe and Quiet Skies Act
Photo credit: Alvaro Camacho by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Legislation was introduced last week (H.R. 1071) in the House of Representatives by a group of...
Electric planes may be here sooner than we think, but might do little for noise
Photo credit: Evia Aero licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by John Stewart, vice chair, European Union Against Aircraft Nuisance There is a lot of talk about electric planes. A report from the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK suggests some short-haul flights could be using...
Upcoming webinar on capping flight numbers at airports
Photo credit: Tom Fisk by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Years before I was a co-author of the book “Why Noise Matters,” of which John Stewart is the lead author, I had...
Aviation college looks at aviation noise
Photo credit: Rafael Cosquiere by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a result of my long-term research, writings and activism to reduce noise pollution and enhance quiet...
The Supersonic X-59 is coming
Photo credit: Robert Sullivan has dedicated this photo to the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, I attended a session on measuring aircraft noise. Several of the...