Researchers in search of a truly silent aircraft
You couldn’t be in a better place than Le Bourget during airshow week to appreciate–if that’s the right word–aircraft noise.

You couldn’t be in a better place than Le Bourget during airshow week to appreciate–if that’s the right word–aircraft noise. Yet a comparison between the takeoff rumble of the newest airliners and the thunderous departures of the latest military models amply demonstrates the progress in noise suppression made by the civil aircraft industry. And this progress continues, aimed at the eventual development of truly silent aircraft.