SONIC BOOM EXPERIMENTS AT EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE

Abstract

A series of tests was conducted in which human subjects (located indoors and outdoors), special test structures, and animals were exposed to booms from F-104, F-106, B-58, SR-71, and XB-70 supersonic aircraft, and the noise from KC-135 and WC-135B subsonic aircraft. Physical measurements were made of the sonic boom signatures, subsonic aircraft noise, and the response of structures to the booms and noise. Psychological measurements were made of the subjective acceptability to several hundred subjects of the booms and subsonic aircraft noise. Details of the test plan and procedures, and the results of the data analyzed to date are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 1967
Accession Number
AD0655310

Entities

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Birds
  • Data Analysis
  • Doppler Effect
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Recording Systems
  • Shock Waves
  • Supersonic Aircraft
  • Supersonic Transport Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow