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Curious, would electric flight be significantly quieter such that airport noise is significantly less of an issue?

Or is the noise from turbulence through the air or something? I honestly would think they'd be minimising turbulence anyway for energy efficiency.

Somewhat quieter, but not by much. We’re talking about prop planes here, where the prop is the noisy part.

Most of it is due to turbulence. But that doesn't mean that a different engine can't make the plane have a completely different noise profile.