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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...
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...
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...
Photo credit: Alex Azabache by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article tells us that Representative Dan Beyer’s Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act was included in a...
Photo credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Using equipment on the Perseverance rover, scientists have discovered the speed of sound is unique on Mars. Sound speed depends...
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition Here’s some real buzz from NASA: they’ve launched a robotic helicopter on Mars. The old Zen koan needs a re-write: "What is the sound of one hand...
Photo credit: NASA's Langley Research Center by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on NewAtlas discusses NASA research on a quiet airplane wing. The research uses a wind tunnel and a model airplane to determine the effects of new designs on noise....
by David M. Sykes, Vice Chair, The Quiet Coalition How do we get to a cleaner, quieter America? Picture an America where the most egregious sources of pollution, transportation--whether road, air, or rail--run significantly cleaner and quieter. Today, the energy...
Quiet aircraft? NASA’s on the job, but when will it happen? Slower than we would like, sadly, but maybe sooner than we think?