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 Explosive growth of air travel has created hundreds of busy airports, many serving as regional hubs. This welcome development for air travelers has been an unwelcome problem for people living in the pear-shaped noise exposure contours around the airports. Community noise problems have seriously curtailed expansive airport and airline industry ambitions. The solution: funded programs to abate noise.
The FAA funds Community Noise Programs to achieve a maximum DNL noise exposure of 45 dB inside home within the 65 dB noise contour. These ongoing programs offer free acoustical design, construction and acoustical testing to qualified homeowners, schools and houses of worship. This retrofit program typically recommends replacements and our enhancement of window, door and ventilation systems. This program is operating in all major and regional airports in the country. Between 1996 and 2003, the FAA program funded $1.6 billion of soundproofing construction. Between 2004-2009, and additional $1.3 billion will be funded.
Damping noise and vibration has traditionally been costly and risky – until now. Quiet Solution offers the aviation sector a complete line of high-performance products to soundproof aircraft and the associated vehicles, buildings and machinery. Using a new generation of viscoelastic polymers, it is now possible to achieve luxury levels of quiet with a fraction of the bulk, weight and cost of traditional technologies.
The most effective way to mitigate interior airplane noise and vibration is to coat the pilot and passenger compartments with QuietAir viscoelastic polymer.
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