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The Silent Aircraft Initiative - a new approach

The Silent Aircraft Initiative - a new approach

Reducing aircraft noise is rising up the agenda of environmental issues.

The Silent Aircraft Initiative

Not only are greater demands being imposed for greener aircraft, so too are parallel demands that they should be quieter - much quieter. The Department of Engineering's Silent Aircraft Initiative, funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, is a new approach, taking low noise as the most important design objective and working with a wide range of partners to come up with a truly novel solution. Set up as a Knowledge Integration Community, with knowledge exchange as its core driver, the Silent Aircraft Initiative aims to change the way aerospace research is undertaken, through extensive collaboration with a much wider franchise of stakeholders than ever before.

The project is run jointly between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For further details visit http://silentaircraft.org and http://www.cambridge-mit.org.

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