The avoidance of sonic booms places a constraint on aircraft design and can lead to unusual new configurations. From a comparison among several candidate designs, it is shown that an oblique winged aircraft offers many advantages when structure, stability, flight efficiency, and airport noise are considered jointly.
Aircraft design for flight below the sonic boom speed limit
Quarter Century Symp. ; 1974 ; Toronto, Canada
1976-02-01
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