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Boeing Commerical Airplanes is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial transport aircraft. In keeping with its corporate objective of providing environmentally friendly products, Boeing has aggressively sought to acquire, develop, and implement new technology for reducing aircraft community noise while maintaining the operational efficiency and customer value of its products.

Internally, Boeing has invested heavily in new facilities, test equipment, and methods for aeroacoustics research and noise control. Research projects have been planned with a long-term focus that addresses the challenge of transition of new basic technology to production. Major research projects are staffed with multidisciplinary teams to address cross-functional design, manufacturability, maintainability, durability, and cost, all obstacles to implementation of new technology.

Externally, Boeing has held leadership positions in NASA's Advanced Subsonic Technology (AST) program since its inception in 1993, and has strongly supported organizations that promote research in aeroacoustics, such as the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee. As a NASA contractor, Boeing has provided substantial cost sharing in the form of private databases brought into the AST program, and in direct labor and test hardware fabrication support to NASA test programs. Boeing has also provided direct support to aeroacoustics research programs at several universities, including Stanford, Florida State, Florida Atlantic, Boston University, MIT, VPI, LSU, and Arizona.

Boeing's broad approach to aeroacoustics research is an indication of the difficulty of finding solutions to commercial aircraft community noise issues. Participation in the OAI Aeroacoustics Consortium is a unique opportunity to help bring together distinguished researchers to collaborate on problems of extraordinary difficulty and vital importance to the aviation industry. Boeing is committed to this objective.

Contact Information

Dr. Robert Stoker Manager, Acoustics and Fluid Mechanics Boeing Commercial Airplanes P.O. Box 3707, MC 67-ML Seattle, WA 98124 Phone: 425.237.2725 Fax: 425.237.2898 Robert.W.Stoker@boeing.com

For further information regarding Boeing, see its website at www.boeing.com.