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The Noise of Rotorcraft and other VTOL Aircraft— A Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

I. C. Cheeseman
I. C. Cheeseman*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University, Southampton
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The need to understand the mechanism of generation and to be able to predict the noise of aircraft has increased enormously in the present decade. The questions which the aircraft designer now poses to the noise engineer are much more difficult to answer than was the case in 1964 when rotorcraft noise was discussed by this Section. For example in the case of conventional transport aircraft at the beginning of this decade it was only necessary to show that on take off the peak noise did not exceed 110 PNdB at a predetermined monitoring point at certain airfields. With the advent of noise certification it is now necessary to know the complete noise time history of the aircraft for points under the take off path, at the side and on the approach before the aircraft flies or the engine is made. The increased emphasis on noise research and the resulting developments in the theory and practice is not surprising.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 75 , Issue 726 , June 1971 , pp. 406 - 412
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1971 

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