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Owl wing-inspired design reduces noise from aircraft engines, study finds Owls produce about 18 decibels less noise than other birds at similar flight speeds due to wing design Vishwam Sankaran ...

Chiba University researchers have been studying owl flight to design aircraft that emit less noise. They created 3D models of owl wings with special fringes that cut through air while reducing noise.

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Many species of owl are able to hunt in effective silence by suppressing their noise at sound frequencies above 1.6 kilohertz (kHz) - over the range to which human hearing is most sensitive.