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A Comparative Study of the Noise from Turbo-Jet and Reciprocating Aircraft Engines in Flight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Summary

Sources of noise in aircraft are discussed briefly with particular reference to the introduction of the turbo-jet engine.

An account is given of a particular investigation made in a Lancastrian aircraft fitted with both turbo-jet and reciprocating engines. The equipment by which the noise spectrum was analysed over, an extended frequency band is described.

The results are examined and the effects of the two types of engine on the noise spectrum are compared, under different representative conditions, in the forward and rear sections of the fuselage.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

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