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FOR a long time the hearing of personnel in the Services has been endangered by the noise of gunfire and its deafening effects are well known. Next to gunfire, the modern turbo-jet engine is probably the source of the most intense noise to which large numbers of men are being exposed at present. Various attempts have been made to detect any permanent deterioration in hearing resulting from jet noise but, until recently, no significant changes have been found. Whereas the less intense noise of piston-engined aircraft produces the typical loss of hearing acuity of acoustic trauma which appears first in the region of 4 kc./s., this form of defect has not been evident with exposure to jet noise.
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COLES, R., KNIGHT, J. Effect of Jet Aircraft Noise on Hearing. Nature 184, 1803–1804 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841803b0
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