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I noticed right away when Steve pulled out the Bailey-Moyes Dragonfly last Sunday that this was an especially quiet tug. I have previously written about the quiet tugs at Cloud 9 (http://ozreport.com/7.114#2), but those have the high power four stroke engines. This tug has the two stroke Rotax 582.

I asked Steve what made it so very quiet? Four things he said. Six bladed prop, four to one gear box, intake manifold silencer, and second exhaust muffler. You could barely hear the plane and it was hangared right next to us.

In the air it is nosier than it is on the ground, where it is especially quiet, because it is running at full throttle, but still it is exceptionally quiet. I don't see many flight parks that make a huge effort to keep the noise down, but I consider this a priority in order to maintain good relations with one's neighbors.