Boeing noise-shielding wing configuration

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Boeing noise-shielding wing configuration patents.

"Boeing Gets Patents to Develop Quiet Technology" by Jason Paurfrom Wired magazine Autotopia blog.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/03/boeing-granted-patents-on-quiet-technology/

 

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From US patent number 7,900,865.

"Patents Reveal Boeing Low-Noise Ideas" by Graham Warwick from Things With Wings blog at Aviation Week.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/commercial_aviation/ThingsWithWings/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A7a78f54e-b3dd-4fa6-ae6e-dff2ffd7bdbbPost%3Ac11ee51c-10bb-4ee9-aafd-16410cbf93c4

This design is believed to be known internally at Boeing as "Kermit Kruizer."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002973147_boeingconcepts05.html

 

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From US patent number 7,900,868.

"Patents Reveal Boeing Low-Noise Ideas" by Graham Warwick from Things With Wings blog at Aviation Week.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/commercial_aviation/ThingsWithWings/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A7a78f54e-b3dd-4fa6-ae6e-dff2ffd7bdbbPost%3Ac11ee51c-10bb-4ee9-aafd-16410cbf93c4