The biggest concern for Boeing was that, while chevrons were certainly effective at lowering engine noise, they also had the ...

Sound coming from your engine bay is typically very normal, as it means the engine is working and providing power to help move your vehicle. Most drivers have an idea of what their vehicle should ...

In World Rally Championship mythology, the sound of a rally car is almost as important as the way it looks. Out on the stages, and sometimes minutes before they actually see the cars, rally fans hear ...

A growing number of authorities – both nationally and internationally – are starting to employ noise cameras to catch riders with bikes considered to be too loud. While that might sound fair enough if ...

You may have noticed them on certain planes when looking out the terminal windows — a kind of shark-toothed look on the back of some planes' engines. Commercial airplanes, outside of their livery, are ...

Hot-wire measurement setup for a BLI configuration, featuring a ducted fan installed adjacent to a curved airframe surface. The setup enables high-resolution velocity field analysis to uncover the ...

Silence is usually sought after. But when it comes to electric cars, the lack of soundtrack is a petrolhead’s biggest gripe. The void of engine noise, the fact that you’ll never hear a V8 roar, is for ...

Toyota’s Crown Hybrid gets brownie points for good gas mileage, but it’s apparently a troublemaker in the motor noise department. Instead of merely adding insulation to the bulkhead, Toyota engineered ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

For those who don't want a quieter car, BMW's new idea fills the cabin with authentic engine noise.