NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Flight pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Flight

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The recent flight demonstration of shaped sonic booms shows the potential for quiet overland supersonic flight, which could revolutionize air transport. To successfully design quiet supersonic aircraft, the upper limit of an acceptable noise level must be determined through quantitative recording and subjective human response measurements. Past efforts have concentrated on the use of sonic boom simulators to assess human response, but simulators often cannot reproduce a realistic sonic boom sound. Until now, molecular relaxation effects on low overpressure rise time had never been compared with flight data. Supersonic flight slower than the cutoff Mach number, which generates evanescent waves, also prevents loud sonic booms from impacting the ground. The loudness of these evanescent waves can be computed, but flight measurement validation is needed. A novel flight demonstration technique that generates low overpressure N-waves using conventional military aircraft is outlined, in addition to initial quantitative flight data.

As part of this demonstration, evanescent waves also will be recorded

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 1/1/2005
• Year: 2005
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), EVANESCENT WAVES, FLIGHT TESTS, LOUDNESS, NOISE INTENSITY, SUPERSONIC FLIGHT, AIR TRANSPORTATION, HUMAN REACTIONS, MACH NUMBER, MOLECULAR RELAXATION, OVERPRESSURE, Haering, Edward A., Jr., Smolka, James W., Murray, James E., Plotkin, Kenneth J

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