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Passenger aircraft are one of the top focuses of China’s ‘973’ development project, and while the planes will be big the noise they emit will be small thanks to advances in aeronautic acoustics.
Six years ago, China identified large passenger aircraft as one of its 16 priority endeavours – that is, an area where it wanted to gain expertise and manufacturing excellence. Large-scale nuclear power plant and the moon exploration are some of the others in the 16. For passenger aircraft, China aims, in the long term, to have its own company in the ranks of Boeing and Airbus.
For Dr Huang Lixi, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, this represented an opportunity to do advanced research in two of his areas of expertise, namely aeronautics and acoustics, as well as “to be part of a project that aims to build the expertise of a national team and to nurture new talents in this area who will contribute in future.”
"Aerodynamics is not a big problem, there is plenty of expertise [in China]. But acoustic know-how is lacking."
Dr Huang LIxi
The full version of this article was originally published in Bulletin. Please click here to view this HKU publication.
