Sonic Boom Reports Written by Forum Participants

• "Sonic Boom Minimization Experienced Indoors (.pdf 1.0MB)," Ken Plotkin, Natalia Sizov and John Morgenstern, AIAA-2008-0057.

• "F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator's Persistence of Boom Shaping Reduction through Turbulence (.pdf 647KB)," John Morgenstern, AIAA-2005-0012.

• "Wind Tunnel Testing of a Sonic Boom Minimized Tail-Braced Wing Transport Configuration (.pdf 168KB)," John Morgenstern, AIAA-2004-4536.

• "Calculated and Measured Pressure Fields for an Aircraft Designed for Sonic-boom Alleviation (.pdf 141KB)," Victor Lyman and John Morgenstern, AIAA-2004-4846.

• "Sonic Boom Noise Penetration Under a Wavy Ocean: Part I. Theory (.pdf 389KB)," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 514, pp. 281-312, Sept. 2004.

• "Sonic Boom Excited Sediment Waves: A Model Study", by H. K. Cheng, J. Kunc and J. R. Edwards, Canadian Acoustics, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 5-16, Dec. 2003.

• "Sonic Boom Testing of Artificially Blunted Leading Edge (ABLE) Concepts in the NASA Ames Aeroballistic Range (.pdf 431KB)," John Morgenstern, AIAA-2000-1011.

• SR-71 Experiment on Propagation of Sonic Booms.
  Data will be used to soften sonic booms from supersonic aircraft.
  Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California

• Preliminary Airborne Measurements for the SR-71 Sonic Boom Propagation Experiment
  Haering, Edward A., Jr., Ehernberger, L. J., and Whitmore, Stephen A.
  NASA TM-104307, 1995.

• Ground-Based Sensors for the SR-71 Sonic Boom Propagation Experiment
  Norris, Stephen R., Haering, Edward A., Jr., Murray, James E.
  NASA TM-104310, 1995.

• Ground-Recorded Sonic Boom Signatures of F-18 Aircraft in Formation Flight
  Bahm, Catherine M., and Haering, Edward A., Jr.
  NASA TM-104312, 1995.

• Digital Image Enhancement of Schlieren Photography

• Sonic Boom Propagation and Its Submarine Impact: Study of Theoretical and Computational Issues
  Cheng, H. K., Lee, C. J., Hafer, M. M. and Guo, W. H.
  AIAA Paper 96-0755, 1996.

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