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title: ""Here, he said, could be some clues for developing ultraquiet…"
date: 2017-08-16
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# "Here, he said, could be some clues for developing ultraquiet…

*August 16, 2017 · Facebook*

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\"Here, he said, could be some clues for developing ultraquiet aircraft and wind turbines.\
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\"The owl is almost completely silent in flight,\" said Sharma, an Iowa State assistant professor of aerospace engineering and Walter W. Wilson Faculty Fellow who started working in aeroacoustics -- the noise associated with air flow -- during graduate school and a previous position at GE. \"Owls are not only silent in gliding flight, but also in flapping flight, which is amazing.\"\
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And then Sharma picked up the wing (a specimen collected by Iowa State avian ecologist Stephen Dinsmore) and pointed out the three-part \"owl hush kit\" that\'s responsible for silent flight.\"\
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