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After years of enduring the ear-splitting shriek of jetliners flying over their homes, residents of communities near airports can at last look forward to quieter skies. By 1971, FAA Associate Administrator Oscar Bakke announced last week, the aviation agency will most likely demand that the engines on some 2,100 existing commercial jets be muffled to reduce their noise to a still unspecified level...
...FAA also announced that noise limits have been established for the forthcoming breed of "jumbo jets" -Boeing's 747, Lockheed's L-1011 and McDonnell Douglas' DC-10. The legal maximum for jumbo noise will be considerably lower than the sound made by large jet engines now in operation; in effect, it will cut in half the noise audible to those on the ground. Under the new limits, the jet noise should be no louder than that heard by a man running a power mower with a four-cycle engine, the FAA promised, and only a quarter...
There is one hitch. Although the FAA's precedent-setting regulations for jumbo jets go into effect on Dec. 1, the Boeing 747s-which in February will become the first (by 21 months) to start flying passenger runs-will be temporarily exempt. Reason: Boeing applied for certification of the 747 one year before the agency began drafting its noise laws and is too far along in production of the jumbos to meet the FAA deadline. Result: no less noise for a while...
Once inside the cockpit, Minichiello held the carbine at the flight engineer's head and ordered Pilot Cook to head for New York. Cook laconically radioed the FAA control center in Oakland: "Rerouting to change to New York on account of hijacking." FBI agents hastened to Kennedy Airport, but in the meantime Cook persuaded the skyjacker to let him put down at Denver to refuel and allow the passengers and three of the four stewardesses to disembark. Fearful of making a dangerous situation worse, ground personnel did not intervene. After the Denver stop, the red and white jet took...
...would annoy groundlings, to say the least. Transportation Secretary Volpe last week promised that the SST will fly supersonically only over water, at least until the sonic boom is brought within "acceptable limits." Three countries-Sweden, Ireland and West Germany-have already banned SSTs over their territory. The FAA calculates that if all restrictions on supersonic flight were removed, the eventual market would jump from 500 SSTs to 1,200, adding $28 billion to sales. Thus there will always be a powerful temptation to remove the speed restrictions and subject Americans to what Boeing calls the "20th century sound...