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Volume 2, Issue 4
1 April 1930
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| April 01 1930

The Reduction of Noise in Aircraft: A Discussion of the Physical Aspects of Measuring Cabin Noises Quantitatively as a Preliminary to Taking Steps Towards Their Elimination Available to Purchase

H.E. Wimperis, C.B.E., M.A., F.R.Ae.S.
H.E. Wimperis, C.B.E., M.A., F.R.Ae.S.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1930
Aircraft Engineering (1930) 2 (4): 79.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb029253

THE achievement of a reasonable degree of silence in aircraft cabins is chiefly difficult because of the amazing intensity of the noise made by the airscrew and engine. There is, in addition, the difficulty of excluding this noise from the cabin without unduly adding to the weight of the structure.

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