Bose is celebrating 40 years of active noise reduction (ANR) aviation headsets, kicking off the effort this week at the Sun ‘n Fun (SNF) Aerospace Expo with a “40 Years, 40 Pilots” campaign. At its SNF booth, Bose is asking pilots to share their aviation stories (no mentions of headsets required) on video, which will later be posted to the company’s social media and other outlets. It plans to gather more stories at EAA AirVenture in July and potentially online.
Founder Amar Bose sketched the math for the ANR technology on a napkin while onboard a long-haul airline flight in 1978, but the company is using the Voyager flight in December 1986 as the marker for its ANR headsets. The Voyager crew used pre-production Bose ANR headsets on their record-setting 10-day nonstop flight around the world after a medical assessment found that the pilots would lose 20% of their hearing on the flight.
In this article
More In Cabin Interior and Electronics
