Noise problems

IN April 1960 a Committee under the Chairmanship of Sir Alan Wilson, F.R.S., was appointed by the Government to examine the nature, sources and effects of the problem of noise and to advise what further measures could be taken to mitigate it. That Committee has now completed its investigations and its findings have been published in the form of a Command Paper entitled ‘Noise—Final Report’. Approximately one quarter of the Report is devoted to aircraft noise and we have reproduced a condensed version of this section in the following pages.