Patent ID: 8490914

Claim:
Aircraft noise reduction apparatus including an aircraft landing gear assembly and a noise reduction fairing, wherein the landing gear assembly comprises a landing gear leg arranged to be moveable between a stowed position and a fully deployed position, said leg having a length extending from an upper end substantially near a fuselage to a lower end at which at least one landing gear wheel assembly is located, and the noise reduction fairing comprises a wrap-around fairing, wherein the wrap-around fairing includes a left fairing surface extending in a substantially streamwise direction, a right fairing surface extending in a substantially streamwise direction, a front fairing surface extending between the left and right fairing surfaces and a bottom fairing surface bound by the front fairing surface and the left and right fairing surfaces, wherein said bottom fairing surface is at said lower end of said leg, said fairing, when the landing gear leg is in said fully deployed position, wraps around the landing gear leg and extends along a majority of said length.