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Just what kind of leaders do they have in the party who whine like a child when the smallest storm arises? Those lackluster politicians who ever since this investigation broke have been sounding like sob sisters trying to make Adams quit -who needs them? CHARLES F. BUTLER North Abington, Mass...
Fractured Decibels. Plane builders themselves long ago recognized the noise problem, went to work developing suppressors that would cut the roar and whine of pure jet engines without cutting engine efficiency too much. Last week Boeing announced that it had licked the problem. It said that its suppressor had cut jet noise below the level promised purchasers of the 707, making it slightly less noisy than a Super Constellation. The trick was done by breaking up the jet stream and funneling it through 21 narrow after tubes instead of one big tube. "The big, doughnut-shaped exhaust roar," said...
...noise at the normal measuring distance to 102 decibels, about the level of a piston-engine airliner. But it has also thrown a new factor into the dispute; the Authority argued that the results of tests it had made showed that the jet noise contained a high-pitched whine that made it much more objectionable to listeners than a piston-engine plane roar of a much higher decibel reading. But the Authority's own aviation-development specialist, Herbert O. Fisher, apparently disagreed. He joined with outside technicians in a report calling the suppressor a success, likely to make...
...just love those Americans," bubbled Simon Ward, the Daily Sketch's "Inside Information" columnist. "Now they're fitting a device to propellers of their planes to produce the same magic whine of Britain's turboprop engines. The theory is that if the 'jet noise' attracts even one passenger per plane, it's paid for itself...
...With a whine of turboprop engines, a fat new airliner quickly gathered speed at Hagerstown, Md. one day last week and took off on its maiden flight. The plane was Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.'s F-27 Friendship, the company's jet-age answer to the problem of replacing the hundreds of aging DC-35 still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task...