This paper presents a discussion of an aircraft shaping method to control sonic boom over-pressure levels along with the analysis of wind-tunnel data which validated the method. The results indicate that the sonic boom minimization method can guide the design team choices of aircraft planform and component arrangement toward a low-boom-level configuration while permitting sufficient freedom and flexibility to satisfy other design criteria. Further, it is shown that off-design flight conditions do not drastically change the overpressure sonic boom shape and strength.
Some effects of applying sonic boom minimization to supersonic cruise aircraft design
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aeroacoustics Conference ; 1979 ; Seattle, WA
1979-03-01
Conference paper
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English
Design of Supersonic Biplane Aircraft Concerning Sonic Boom Minimization
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