Photo credit: Ömer Aydın by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent report from CBS News discusses research showing that airplanes can reduce contrails* by flying lower. Some research indicates that contrails, the white plumes following high-flying jets,...
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Conservation groups sue Air Force to protect wilderness
Photo credit: NASA/NASA Image and Video Library by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Military.com reports that conservation groups in Oregon, Nevada and Idaho are suing the U.S. Air Force to ban low-altitude F-15 flights over the Owyhee Wilderness Area. The...
Elon Musk thinks flying cars are dumb
Cult classic film "Back to the Future" features a flying, time-traveling car. Photo credit: Rebecca Roth/NASA Image and Video Library by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The SupercarBlondie automotive entertainment website reports that Elon Musk, CEO of...
Contrail studies need to look at noise pollution
Photo credit: Anton Kudryashov by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies While some people are familiar with the cloudy white lines that follow planes, I don’t know if everyone...
Reduced hours for NYC’s tourist helicopter tours
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 Stop the Chop NY/NJ, a nonprofit working to ban all nonessential helicopter flights over New York City, the...
How quiet is NASA’s new supersonic jet?
The X-59 team working on the aircraft’s wiring around the engine inlet prior to the engine being installed. Photo credit: Garry Tice/NASA by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN recently reported on NASA’s new X-59 supersonic jet. Reporter Jacopo Prisco...
How blind people process the sound of movement
Photo credit: Yan Krukau by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This fascinating report on The Conversation website by two researchers at the University of Washington discusses their recent research that studies how blind people process the sound of movement....
Bay Area legislators seek action from the FAA
Photo credit: Tae Fuller by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jordan Parker informs us that five congressional...
Australian police fine noisy motorists
Photo credit: Levent Simsek by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Authorities in Victoria, Australia, are concerned about the impact of noise on our well-being. To this end,...