Psychological Experiments on Sonic Booms Conducter at Edwards Air Force Base

Abstract

A series of tests were conducted in June 1966 and October 1966 to January 1967 in which human subjects (located indoors and outdoors), and special test structures were exposed to booms from F-104, F-106, B-58, SR-71, and XB-70 supersonic aircraft, and the noise from KC-136 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 are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0689844

Entities

People

  • J. R. Young
  • K. A. Kryter
  • P. J. Johnson

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Noise
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Energy Bands
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Measurement
  • Noise
  • Sonic Boom
  • Supersonic Aircraft
  • Supersonic Transport Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Turbojet Engines

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow