Southern California Sonic Boom Forum

Monday, October 30, 2000

John Laufer Library, Rapp Engineering Research Bldg(RRB), Room 208

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2:00 Kenneth J. Plotkin, Wyle Laboratories, Arlington, VA

Predicting Launch Vehicle Sonic Booms with PCBooms.

2:30 Adam Fincham and Tony Maxworthy, Univ. Southern California

Laboratory Experiment of Sonic Boom Penetration into Water

3:00 Break

3:30 GFD Lab Tour, Olin Hall Engineering

4:00 Joel Garrelick, Cambridge Acoustics Associates, Cambridge, MA

Effects of Coastline on Underwater Sonic Boom Transmission

4:20 Joel Mendoza, Santa Rosa, CA; previously NASA Ames Research Center

Rocket Plume Effects on Launch Vehicle Sonic Booms

(Joel not present but document available in meeting archives)

4:40 Issues and Comments

5:00 Adjournment.

6:00 (No-Host Supper)