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Alleviating Aircraft Noise: The Quiet Aircraft Technology Program
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Audience: Educators and StudentsGrades: 9-Higher Education
This video segment explains how NASA's Quiet Aircraft Technology Program is helping to improve the environment in and around airports. Viewers learn that much of an airplane's noise comes from air turbulence and that modifications to the engines, wing flaps and landing gear are reducing the noise effects significantly. The video also discusses how scientists perform such acoustical research to minimize sound propagation. The video includes an interview with an acoustical scientist.
Alleviating Aircraft Noise: The Quiet Aircraft Technology Program
Duration: 5 minutes 37 seconds
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This video clip is part of the Destination Tomorrow™ Program 9: Bringing the Future Into Focus DVD that may be ordered from the Central Operation of Resources for Educators, or CORE →.
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A Retrospective Look at the Gemini Program
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