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HUSH KITS FOR LANDING GEARS?

LE BOURGET, PARIS, According Louis Le Porz, chairman of Messier-Dowty, the world's largest aircraft landing gear maker, could be started soon the realization of "silenced" landing gears. According studies conducted by company, 25% of the noise of a landing aircraft comes from air noise around landing gears, and studies are conducting in order to reduce it.

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 14293
Rome, Italy, 06/20/2001 11:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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