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Rolls-Royce
As one of the world’s leading suppliers of aero-engines, Rolls-Royce is fully involved in dialog on the subject of how the impact of aviation on the environment is to be managed to accommodate society’s ever-increasing demand for air transport.

Rolls-Royce is very proud of its record of relentlessly improving the environmental performance of its aero-engines. Sustained effort and investment over five decades has yielded dramatic improvements in emissions, noise, fuel efficiency, and weight. Rolls-Royce has reduced the noise from civil aircraft powered by its engines, halving the noise at take-off twice in the last 40 years and aiming to develop the technology to halve it again by 2010.

For many years, Rolls-Royce has conducted noise research in collaboration with QinetiQ in the U.K., with financial support from the U.K. government through the Department of Trade and Industry. More recently Rolls-Royce has also been an active participant in NASA’s Advanced Subsonic Technology Noise Reduction Program through its U.S. operations and in collaborative noise research programs across Europe through its European operations.

Rolls-Royce also has a long history of working with universities. Recently it established a University Technology Centre in gas turbine noise at Southampton University, which will work with the University Gas Turbine Partnership at Cambridge University to help develop new technology to minimize aircraft noise.

Rolls-Royce believes the OAI Aeroacoustics Consortium provides a further opportunity for leveraging the international efforts to reduce aircraft noise.

Contact Information

William N. Dalton Rolls-Royce Corp. Speed Code T10B Box 420 Indianapolis, IN 46206-0420 Phone: 317.230.2430 William.N.Dalton@rolls-royce.com

Dr. Andrew Kempton, Chief Noise Specialist - External Affairs Rolls-Royce plc P.O. Box 31 Derby, DE24 8BJ U.K. Phone: +44 1332 249350 Andrew.J.Kempton@rolls-royce.com

For further information regarding Rolls-Royce, see its website at www.rolls-royce.com.