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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2
QUIETING THE SKIES: REDUCING AIRCRAFT NOISE
Some airports are the noisiest places on the planet. The roar of
aircraft taking-off and landing continues around the clock. The
noise can be characterized as anything from a low rumble to an
earsplitting shriek. Is all this noise the price we must pay for
getting from point A to point B?
David H. Reed, The Boeing Company, will speak on "Aircraft Noise
РProspects for a Quieter Future" at a colloquium at 2 p.m.,
Tuesday, Dec. 2, at NASA Langley's H.J.E. Reid Conference
Center.
Media Briefing: A media briefing will be held at
1:15 p.m. at the H.J.E. Reid Conference Center, 14 Langley Blvd.,
NASA Langley Research Center. Members of the media who wish to
attend should contact Kimberly W. Land at (757) 864-9885 or
344-8611 (mobile) to arrange for credentials.
Reed will review developments in noise-reduction technology
along with advances in engine and airframe architecture that have
enabled a steady improvement in community noise. He will also talk
about recent technology developments and examine longer-horizon
technology efforts to keep aircraft noise inside airport
boundaries.
For the past 37 years, Reed has worked at The Boeing Company in
noise engineering and acoustics technology organizations, providing
noise engineering design support for all of Boeing's commercial jet
products from 707-777. He led the development of Boeing's Low Speed
Aeroacoustic wind tunnel and supervised the test-engineering group
at Boeing's noise lab. Currently, he has responsibility for
aeroacoustics, structural acoustics, and fluid mechanics technology
development for Boeing commercial airplanes and for acoustics
technology development at Phantom Works, Boeing's enterprise-wide
research organization.
Reed has a bachelor's degree in physics from Oregon State
University and a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics
from the University of Washington.
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