Hush house

A hush house is an enclosed, noise-suppressed facility used for testing

aircraft systems, including propulsion, mechanics, electronics,
pneumatics, and others.[1] Installed or uninstalled jet engines can be run
under actual load conditions.

Testing
A hush house is large enough to accommodate an entire manned or
unmanned aircraft. Some facilities are also equipped to test additional
capabilities such as weight and balance, night vision and low lighting,
[1]
water intrusion, heat soaking, and wind evaluation.
A Eurofighter Typhoon in a hush house facility
Jet engines can be run while installed in the aircraft, which must be with an air-cooled exhaust detuner
restrained by holdback devices to resist the engine thrust. Uninstalled
engines (without the aircraft) can be tested while held in place by thrust
frames.

The air intake and exhaust systems of indoor engine test cells and hush houses are designed to block the transmission of noise, while
optimizing the engine air flows. The engine exhaust, after having been thoroughly mixed with cooling air, is generally discharged
through a vertical stack. The gas path incorporates acoustic damping panels (often containing fibrous insulation protected from gas
stream erosion by metal mesh) to reduce the sound energy of the gas stream and attenuate the noise transmitted to the surrounding
outdoor area.

Because the engine exhaust flow is "augmented" with a relatively large flow of cooling air induced by a Venturi effect into the
exhaust silencing system, the exhaust muffler of an indoor test facility is generally referred to as an augmenter tube, although the
term "detuner" is commonly used in the UK.

Some outdoor run-up facilities used to test aircraft engines (installed or uninstalled) may also be outfitted with noise control
structures, called Ground Run-Up Enclosures.[2][3][4]

Examples
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuniin Japan[5]
Naval Air Station Jacksonvillein Jacksonville, Florida[6]
orth in Fort Worth, Texas[7]
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort W
Naval Air Station Oceanain Virginia Beach, Virginia[8][9]
Naval Air Station Patuxent Riverin Maryland[10]

References
1. "Aircraft Test & Evaluation Facility (Hush House)" (http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.co
ntent_detail&key=C0BB05F6-E5D3-40AA-A7E4-70BAC604C421) . Naval Air Warcraft Center Aircraft Division.
United States Navy. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
2. "Ground Run-up Enclosures (GREs)"(http://www.iac-noisecontrol.com/uk/test-facilities/aviation/ground-run-up-enclo
sures-gres/). IAC Acoustics. Sound Seal. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
3. Ground Run-Up Procedures Manual, Chicago O'Hare International Airport
(https://www.oharenoise.org/sitemedia/do
cuments/noise_mitigation/FlyQuietCommittee/Ground%20Run-Up%20Procedures%20Manual%202015.11.10.pdf)
 (PDF), Chicago Department of Aviation, November 10, 2015, p. 1, retrieved 7 January 2018
4. Swartz, Kenneth I. (April 20, 2017)."Good neighbour; quiet neighbour"(https://www.skiesmag.com/news/good-neigh
bour-quiet-neighbour/). Skies Magazine. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
5. Cruz Jr., Cpl. Carlos (December 14, 2015)."Hush houses reduce noise in Iwakuni, Japan"(http://www.mcasiwakuni.
marines.mil/News/News-Stories/News-Article-Display/Article/634161/hush-houses-reduce-noise-in-iwakuni-japan/)
.
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. United States Marines. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
6. "`Hush House' Quiets Navy Jet Tests" (https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-57503782/hush-house-quiets-navy-jet-test
s). Florida Times Union. September 14, 1996. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
7. Haley, Betsy (July 26, 2004)."JRB Fort Worth Reserve team embraces NAVRIIP" (http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.c
fm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=2819). Naval Air Systems Command. United States Navy. Retrieved
7 January 2018.
8. "Field Operations Engine Maintenance"(https://cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrma/installations/nas_oceana/om/air_operati
ons/air_installation_compatible_use_zone/field_operations_engine_maintenance.html) . Naval Air Station Oceana.
United States Navy. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
9. "Aircraft Acoustical Enclosure Oceana Hush House"(http://wmschlosser.com/projects/hush-house). Projects. W. M.
Schlosser Company. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
10. "A 'Hush Rush' keeps the T-45 flying" (http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.PrintNewsStory&id=52
30). NAVAIR News Release. United States Navy. January 14, 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

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