JET PLANE BAN
(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 7. The Port of New York Authority ruled today that jet airliners were too noisy to operate in the New York metropolitan area. The authority’s decision to continue a six-year ban was based r »n the demonstration of a new Boeing 707 jet airliner at Seattle, Washington, last Friday. Mr Austin Tobin, executive director of the authority, said that several members flew in the 147-passenger, 600 mile-an-hour plane and then listened to it from the ground.
The Boeing Airplane Company said that the plane had been equipped with a “noise suppressor” which reduced the roar of its four jet engines to a level no greater than that of conventional airliners. Mr Tobin said that authority officials found the plane “noiseless and vibrationless” while in the air.
“On the ground and immediately overhead, however, the prototype 707 presents the most grievous problems to the publicly owned airports of the country,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28222, 9 March 1957, Page 11
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