Judge dismisses airport-noise lawsuit

Judge dismisses airport-noise lawsuit

A Colorado district court judge dismissed a complaint seeking an injunction against the "public nuisance" of piston aircraft operating at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport.

Judge dismisses lawsuit against state troopers for Benton Harbor traffic stop

BENTON HARBOR — A federal judge has dismissed the civil case Dakarai Larriett brought against the Michigan State Police concerning a traffic stop in Benton Harbor one year ago.

German researchers study noise reduction for UAM systems

The future uptake of aircraft with distributed propulsion will, to some extent, depend on how their engine noise is perceived by people. Researchers at the Institute of Propulsion Technology in Germany (DLR) are investigating aerodynamic noise sources and their acoustic effects to enable low-noise engine designs and facilitate the integration of these aircraft into urban airspace. In the DLR research project VIRLWINT (Virtual Acoustic Twin of Dis