Category Archives: Noise Pollution

From Chicago’s Journal & Topics “The old standard for tracking noise impacts was the Schultz Curve, developed 40 years ago, which tends to consider the irritations from airport noise rise slowly in a shallow curve. It predicted that at 50 DNL hardly anyone was bothered by noise, and by the time noise reached 70 DNL,Continue reading “FAA Seeks Input On Why Air Traffic Annoys Neighbors”

“ NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission is developing design tools that manufacturers can use to reduce noise impacts. The Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project and Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology project work together to conduct testing with industry partners. The data NASA collects and analyzes from these tests with electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) will ensure that the agency’s aircraftContinue reading “NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility Mission Researches Noise”

By Bloomberg… “Airport noise is a global issue, though the Netherlands may be a special case given that it’s one of the world’s most densely populated countries. Neighbors of Schiphol have recently found that their years of complaints finally paid off: the airport recently announced a series of measures that it hopes will lead toContinue reading “Airport Noise and Its Discontents”

From CNET “ While it may be obvious to the people it affects most, research now confirms that living next to an airport can seriously curtail how much sleep you get.  Researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health and Oregon State University published a study last month linking increased airplane noise with gettingContinue reading “Living Near an Airport Affects Your Sleep, New Study Shows”

“Dispersing jet noise and particle emissions is an acknowledged antidote to concentration and is defined as “the process of introducing track variability by changing aircraft lateral position enough to spread out repetitive and intrusive noise events experienced by people living under highly concentrated flight paths” (UC Davis Aviation Noise and Emissions Symposium, February 2021).” https://www.lajollalight.com/news/opinion/story/2023-05-15/guest-commentary-now-is-your-time-to-comment-as-faa-evaluates-jet-noise-standards-and-mitigation

FAA PRESS RELEASE  Highlights… Noise and Advance Air Mobility Aircraft, Drones and Rotorcraft Develop noise models for different types of Advanced Air Mobility vehicles:$315,000 to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Develop acoustic modeling for Urban Air Mobility vehicles with low noise operations:$280,000 to Pennsylvania State University. Evaluate the noise exposure that could result from large numbersContinue reading “Quiet skies: Universities to research way to reduce aviation noise”

“We live in a home that we worked our entire lives for, and one day we woke up and were in a war zone in terms of the noise and the pollution and the chaos,” said Save Our Skies LA member and Sherman Oaks resident Chloe King. “I’m a writer who works at home andContinue reading “LA residents sue FAA over changed flight paths out of Burbank and Van Nuys airports”

From Fox news… “In a report published last month, the Neighborhood Environmental Survey (NES), conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), found that nearly two-thirds of people polled were “highly annoyed” by aviation noise — even more than road traffic or noise from their neighbors. … Compared with prior studies, the national curve showed “substantially more people highlyContinue reading “FAA study finds that most Americans are ‘highly annoyed’ by aircraft noise”