Reports, Papers, Articles, and Presentations:
William J. Alford and Cornelius Driver, “Recent Supersonic Transport Research,” Astronautics & Aeronautics, vol. 2, No. 9 (Sept. 1964), pp. 26–37.
William H. Andrews, “Summary of Preliminary Data Derived from the XB-70 Airplanes,” NASA TM-X-1240 (1966).
Daniel G. Baize, “1995 NASA High-Speed Research Program Sonic Boom Workshop,” NASA CP-3335, vol. 1 (1996).
Raymond L. Barger, “Sonic-Boom Wave-Front Shapes and Curvatures Associated with Maneuvering Flight,” NASA TP-1611 (1979).
W.D. Beasly, J.D. Brooks, and R.L. Barger, “A Laboratory Investigation of N-Wave Focusing,” NASA TN-D-5306 (1969).
Percy J. Bobbit and Domenic J. Maglieri, “Dr. Antonio Ferri’s Contribution to Supersonic Transport Sonic-Boom Technology,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 40, No. 4 (July–Aug. 2003), pp. 459–466.
J.D. Brooks, et al., “Laboratory Investigation of Diffraction and Reflection of Sonic Booms by Buildings,” NASA TN-D-5830 (1970).
J.F. Bryant, D.J. Maglieri, and V.S. Richie, “In-Flight Shock-Wave Measurements Above and Below a Bomber Airplane at Mach Numbers from 1.42 to 1.69,” NASA TN-D-1968 (1963).
Trong T. Bui, “CFD Analysis of Nozzle Jet Plume Effects on Sonic Boom Signature,” AIAA Paper 2009-1054 (2009).
Richard L. Campbell, et al., “Efficient Unstructured Grid Adaptation Methods for Sonic Boom Prediction,” AIAA Paper 2008-7327 (2008).
Harry W. Carlson, “An Investigation of Some Aspects of the Sonic Boom by Means of Wind-Tunnel Measurements of Pressures about Several Bodies at a Mach Number of 2.01,” NASA TN-D-161 (1959).
Harry W. Carlson, “Configuration Effects on Sonic Boom,” Proceedings of NASA Conference on Supersonic-Transport Feasibility Studies and Supporting Research, Sept. 17–19, 1963 . . . Hampton, VA, NASA TM-X-905 (1963).
Harry W. Carlson, “Correlation of Sonic-Boom Theory with Wind Tunnel and Flight Measurements,” NASA TR-R-213 (1964).
Harry W. Carlson, “Some Notes on the Present Status of Sonic Boom Prediction and Minimization Research,” Third Conference on Sonic Boom Research . . . Washington, DC, Oct. 29–30, 1970, NASA SP-255 (1971).
Harry W. Carlson, “Simplified Sonic-Boom Prediction,” NASA TP-1122 (1978).
Harry W. Carlson, et al., “A Wind Tunnel Study of Sonic-Boom Characteristics for Basic and Modified Models of a Supersonic Transport Configuration,” NASA TM-X-1236 (1966).
Harry W. Carlson, et al., “Application of Sonic-Boom Minimization Concepts in Supersonic Transport Design,” NASA TN-D-7218 (1973).
J.H. Casper, et al., “Assessment of Near-Field Sonic Boom Simulation Tools,” AIAA Paper 2008-6592 (2008).
Samsun Cheung, “Supersonic Civil Airplane Study and Design: Performance and Sonic Boom,” NASA CR-197745 (1995).
Clark, Buhr, & Nexen [firm]. “Studies of Sonic Boom Damage,” NASA CR-227 (1965).
Peter G. Coen, “Development of a Computer Technique for Prediction of Transport Aircraft Flight Profile Sonic Boom Signatures,” NASA CR-188117 (1991).
Hugo E. Dahlke, et al., “The Shock-Expansion Tube and Its Application as a Sonic Boom Simulator,” NASA CR-1055 (1968).
Christine M. Darden, “Minimization of Sonic-Boom Parameters in Real and Isothermal Atmospheres,” NASA TN-D-7842 (1975).
Christine M. Darden, “Sonic Boom Theory—Its Status in Prediction and Minimization,” AIAA Paper 76-1 (1976).
Christine M. Darden, “Sonic Boom Minimization with Nose-Bluntness Relaxation,” NASA TP-1348 (1979).
Christine M. Darden, “Charts for Determining Potential Minimum Sonic-Boom Overpressures for Supersonic Cruise Aircraft,” NASA TP-1820 (1981).
Christine M. Darden, ed., High Speed Research: Sonic Boom; Proceedings of a Conference at the Langley Research Center, Feb. 25–27, 1992, NASA CR-3172 (1992), vols. 1, 2.
Christine M. Darden and R.J. Mack, “Some Effects of Applying Sonic Boom Minimization to Supersonic Aircraft,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 17, No. 3 (Mar. 1980), pp. 182–186.
Christine M. Darden, et al., “Status of Sonic Boom Methodology and Understanding,” NASA CP-3027 (1989).
J.W.M. Dumond, et al., “A Determination of the Wave Forms and Laws of Propagation and Dissipation of Ballistic Shock Waves,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan. 1946), pp. 97–118.
Philip M. Edge and William H. Mayes, “Description of Langley Low-Frequency Noise Facility and Study of Human Response to Noise Frequencies below 50 cps,” NASA TN-D-3204 (1966).
Phillip M. Edge and Harvey H. Hubbard, “Review of Sonic-Boom Simulation Devices and Techniques,” Dec. 1970, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 51, No. 2, pt. 2 (Feb. 1972), p. 723.
Thomas A. Edwards, ed., High-Speed Research: Sonic Boom; Proceedings of a Conference at the Ames Research Center, May 12–14, 1993, NASA CP-10132, (1993), vol. 1.
Antonio Ferri, Huai-Chu Wang, and Hans Sorensen, “Experimental Verification of Low Sonic Boom Configuration,” NASA CR-2070 (1973).
James M. Fields, “Reactions of Residents to Long-Term Sonic Boom Noise Environments,” NASA CR-201704 (1997).
A.B. Fryer, et al., “Publications in Acoustics and Noise Control from the NASA Langley Research Center during 1940–1976,” NASA TM-X-74042 (1977).
John H. Gardner and Peter H. Rogers, “Thermospheric Propagation of Sonic Booms from the Concorde Supersonic Transport,” Naval Research Laboratory Memo Report 3904, Feb. 14, 1979 (DTIC AD A067201).
A.R. George and A.R. Seebass, “Sonic-Boom Minimization,” Nov. 1970, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 51, No. 2, pt. 3 (Feb. 1972), pp. 686–694.
David H. Graham, et al., “Wind Tunnel Validation of Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration Aircraft Design,” AIAA Paper 2005-7 (2005).
Karen S. Green and Terrill W. Putnam, “Measurements of Sonic Booms Generated by an Airplane Flying at Mach 3.5 and 4.8,” NASA TM-X-3126 (1974).
Edward A. Haering, et al., “Airborne Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration Pressure Measurements with Computational Fluid Dynamics Comparisons,” AIAA Paper 2005-9 (2005).
Edward A. Haering, James W. Smolka, James E. Murray, and Kenneth J. Plotkin, “Flight Demonstration of Low Overpressure N-Wave Sonic Booms and Evanescent Waves,” Innovations in Non-Linear Acoustics: 17th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, International Sonic Boom Forum, State College, PA, July 21–22, 2005, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, vol. 838 (May 2006), pp 647–650.
Edward A. Haering, et al., “Initial Results from the Variable Intensity Sonic Boom Propagation Database,” AIAA Paper 2008-3034 (2008).
George T. Haglund and Edward J. Kane, “Flight Test Measurements and Analysis of Sonic Boom Phenomena Near the Shock Wave Extremity,” NASA CR-2167 (1973).
Thomas H. Higgins, “Sonic Boom Research and Design Considerations in the Development of a Commercial Supersonic Transport,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 39, No. 5, pt. 2 (Nov. 1966), pp. 526–531.
David. A. Hilton, Vera Huckel, and Domenic J. Maglieri, “Sonic Boom Measurements during Bomber Training Operations in the Chicago Area,” NASA TN-D-3655 (1966).
Harvey H. Hubbard, et al., “Ground Measurements of Sonic-Boom Measurements for the Altitude Range of 10,000 to 75,000 Feet,” NASA TR-R-198 (1964).
D.A. Hilton, D.J. Maglieri, and R. Steiner, “Sonic-Boom Exposures during FAA Community Response Studies over a 6-Month Period in the Oklahoma City Area,” NASA TN-D-2539 (1964).
Sherwood Hoffman, “Bibliography of Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Research (SCAR)” [1972–1977], NASA RP-1003 (1977).
Sherwood Hoffman, “Bibliography of Supersonic Cruise Research (SCR) Program from 1977 to Mid-1980,” NASA RP-1063 (1980).
Donald C. Howe, et al., “Development of the Gulfstream Quiet Spike for Sonic Boom Minimization,” AIAA Paper 2008-124 (2008).
Harvey H. Hubbard and Domenic J. Maglieri, “Sonic Boom Signature Data from Cruciform Microphone Array Experiments during the 1966–67 EAFB National Sonic Boom Evaluation Program,” NASA TN-D-6823 (1972).
Harvey H. Hubbard, Domenic J. Maglieri, and David G. Stephens, “Sonic-Boom Research—Selected Bibliography with Annotation,” NASA TM-87685 (1986).
James and Associates, ed., YF-12 Experiments Symposium: A conference held at Dryden Flight Research Center . . . Sept. 13–15, 1978, NASA CP-2054 (1978).
Gareth H. Jordan, “Flight Measurements of Sonic Booms and Effects of Shock Waves on Aircraft,” in Society of Experimental Test Pilots Quarterly Review, vol. 5, No. 1 (1961), pp. 117–131.
Jacob Klos and R.D. Bruel, “Vibro-Acoustical Response of Buildings Due to Sonic Boom Exposure: June 2006 Field Test,” NASA TM-2007-214900 (2007).
Jacob Klos, “Vibro-Acoustic Response of Buildings Due to Sonic Boom Exposure: July 2007 Field Test,” NASA TM-2008-215349 (2008).
Christopher A. Lee, “Design and Testing of Low Sonic Boom Configurations and an Oblique All-Wing Supersonic Transport,” NASA CR-197744 (1995).
G.M. Lilley, et al., “Some Aspects of Noise from Supersonic Aircraft,” Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, vol. 57 (June 1953), pp. 396–414.
Lindsay J. Lina and Domenic J. Maglieri, “Ground Measurements of Airplane Shock-Wave Noise at Mach Numbers to 2.0 and at Altitudes to 60,000 Feet,” NASA TN-D-235, Mar. 1960.
Jerome Lukas and Karl D. Kryler, “A Preliminary Study of the Awakening and Startle Effects of Simulated Sonic Booms,” NASA CR-1193 (1968).
Jerome Lukas and K.D. Kryler, “Awakening Effects of Simulated Sonic Booms and Subsonic Aircraft Noise,” NASA CR-1599 (1970).
B.K.O. Lundberg, “Aviation Safety and the SST,” Astronautics & Aeronautics, vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan. 1966), p. 28.
G.J. MacDonald, et al., “Jason 1978 Sonic Boom Report,” JSR-78-09 (Arlington, VA: SRI International, Nov. 1978).
Robert J. Mack, “A Supersonic Business Jet Concept Designed for Low Sonic Boom,” NASA TM-2003-212435 (2003).
Robert J. Mack and Christine M. Darden, “Wind-Tunnel Investigation of the Validity of a Sonic-Boom-Minimization Concept,” NASA TP-1421 (1979).
Robert J. Mack and Christine M. Darden, “Some Effects of Applying Sonic Boom Minimization to Supersonic Cruise Aircraft Design,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 17, No. 3 (Mar. 1980), pp. 182–186.
Domenic J. Maglieri, “A Brief Review of the National Aero-Space Plane Sonic Booms Final Report,” USAF Aeronautical Systems Center Report TR-94-9344 (1992).
Domenic J. Maglieri, Vera Huckel, and Tony L. Parrott, “Ground Measurements of Shock-Wave Pressure for Fighter Airplanes Flying at Very Low Altitude,” NASA TN-D-3443 (1966) (superseded classified TM-X-611, 1961).
Domenic J. Maglieri, Harvey H. Hubbard, and Donald L. Lansing, “Ground Measurements of the Shock-Wave Noise from Airplanes in Level Flight at Mach Numbers to 1.4 and Altitudes to 45,000 Feet,” NASA TN-D-48, (1959).
Domenic J. Maglieri and Harvey H. Hubbard, “Ground Measurements of the Shock-Wave Noise from Supersonic Bomber Airplanes in the Altitude Range from 30,000 to 50,000 Feet,” NASA TN-D-880 (1961).
Domenic J. Maglieri and Donald L. Lansing, “Sonic Booms from Aircraft in Maneuvers,” NASA TN-D-2370 (1964).
Domenic J. Maglieri and Garland J. Morris, “Measurement of Response of Two Light Airplanes to Sonic Booms,” NASA TN-D-1941 (1963).
Domenic J. Maglieri, et al., “Sonic Boom Measurements for SR-71 Aircraft Operating at Mach Numbers to 3.0 and Altitudes to 24834 Meters,” NASA TN-D-6823 (1972).
Domenic J. Maglieri, Victor E. Sothcroft, and John Hicks, “Influence of Vehicle Configurations and Flight Profile on X-30 Sonic Booms,” AIAA Paper 90-5224 (1990).
Domenic J. Maglieri, et al., “A Summary of XB-70 Sonic Boom Signature Data, Final Report,” NASA CR-189630 (1992).
Domenic J. Maglieri, et al., “Feasibility Study on Conducting Overflight Measurements of Shaped Sonic Boom Signatures Using the Firebee BQM-34E RPV,” NASA CR-189715 (1993).
David A. McCurdy, ed., “High-Speed Research: 1994 Sonic Boom Workshop, Atmospheric Propagation and Acceptability Studies,” NASA CP-3209, and “Configuration, Design, Analysis, and Testing,” NASA CP-209669 (1999).
F. Edward McLean, “Some Nonasymptotic Effects of the Sonic Boom of Large Airplanes,” NASA TN-D-2877 (1965).
Keith H. Meredith, et al., “Computational Fluid Dynamics Comparison and Flight Test Measurement of F-5E Off-Body Pressures,” AIAA Paper 2005-6 (2005).
David S. Miller and Harry W. Carlson, “Sonic Boom Minimization by Application of Heat or Force Fields to Airplane Airflow,” NASA TN-D-5582 (1969).
John M. Morgenstern, et al., “F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator’s Persistence of Boom Shaping Reduction through Turbulence,” AIAA 2005-12 (2005).
Marshall E. Mullens, “A Flight Test Investigation of the Sonic Boom,” AFFTC TN-56-20 (1956).
Charles W. Nixon and Harvey H. Hubbard, “Results of the USAF–NASA–FAA Flight Program to Study Community Response to Sonic Booms in the Greater St. Louis Area,” NASA TN-D-2705 (1965).
Joseph W. Pawlowski, David H. Graham, Charles H. Boccadoro (NGC), Peter G. Coen (LaRC), and Domenic J. Maglieri (Eagle Aero.), “Origins and Overview of the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration Program,” AIAA Paper 2005-5 (2005), pp. 3–7
Kenneth J. Plotkin, “State of the Art of Sonic Boom Modeling,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 111, No. 1, pt. 3 (Jan. 2002), pp. 530–536.
Kenneth J. Plotkin and Domenic J. Maglieri, “Sonic Boom Research: History and Future,” AIAA Paper 2003-3575 (2003).
Kenneth J. Plotkin, et al., “Ground Data Collection of Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment Aircraft Pressure Signatures,” AIAA Paper 2005-10 (2005).
Hugh W. Poling, “Sonic Boom Propagation Codes Validated by Flight Test,” NASA CR-201634 (1996).
John O. Powers, J.M. Sands, and Domenic Maglieri, “Survey of United States Sonic Boom Overflight Experimentation,” NASA TM-X-66339 (1969).
Johnny M. Sands, “Sonic Boom Research (1958-1968),” FAA, Nov. 1968, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) document AD-684806.
Ira R. Schwartz, ed., Sonic Boom Research, Second Conference, Washington, DC, May 9–10, 1968, NASA SP-180 (1968).
Ira R. Schwartz, ed., Third Conference on Sonic Boom Research. . . Washington, DC, Oct. 29–30, 1970, NASA SP-255 (1971).
A.R. Seebass, ed., Sonic Boom Research: Proceedings of a Conference. . . Washington, DC, Apr. 12, 1967, NASA SP-147 (1967).
A.R. Seebass and A.R. George, “Sonic Boom Minimization through Aircraft Design and Operation,” AIAA Paper 73-241 (1973).
A.R. Seebass and A.R. George, “The Design and Operation of Aircraft to Minimize Their Sonic Boom,” Journal of Aircraft, vol. 11, No. 9 (Sept. 1974), pp. 509–517.
Harriet J. Smith, “Experimental and Calculated Flow Fields Produced by Airplanes Flying at Supersonic Speeds,” NASA TN-D-621 (1960).
James W. Smolka, et al., “Flight Testing of the Gulfstream Quiet Spike on a NASA F-15B,” in The Society of Experimental Test Pilots, 2007 Report to the Aerospace Profession (Lancaster, CA: SETP, 2007).
R.T. Sturgielski, et al., “The Development of a Sonic Boom Simulator with Detonable Gases,” NASA CR-1844 (1971).
Rudolph J. Swigart, “An Experimental Study in the Validity of the Heat-Field Concept for Sonic Boom Alleviation,” NASA CR-2381 (1974).
J.P. Taylor and E.R. Taylor, “A Brief Legal History of the Sonic Boom in America,” Aircraft Engine Noise and Sonic Boom (Neuilly Sur Seine, France: NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development [AGARD], 1969), Conference Proceedings (CP) No. 42, Paris, May 1969, pp. 2-1–2-11.
Charles L. Thomas, “Extrapolation of Sonic Boom Pressure Signatures by the Waveform Parameter Method,” NASA TN-D-6823 (1972).
Roger Tomboulian, “Research and Development of a Sonic Boom Simulation Device,” NASA CR-1378 (1969).
F. Walkden, “The Shock Pattern of a Wing-Body Combination Far from the Flight Path,” Aeronautical Quarterly, vol. 9, pt. 2 (May 1958), pp. 164–194.
G.B. Whitham, “The Flow Pattern of a Supersonic Projectile,” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 5, No. 3 (1952), pp. 301–348.
G.B. Whitham, “On the Propagation of Weak Shock Waves,” Journal of Fluid Dynamics, vol. 1, No. 3 (Sept. 1956), pp. 290–318.
Books and Monographs:
Donald D. Baals and William R. Corliss, Wind Tunnels of NASA, SP-440 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1981).
Joseph R. Chambers, Innovation in Flight; Research of the NASA Langley Research Center on Revolutionary Concepts for Aeronautics, NASA SP-2005-4539 (Washington, DC: NASA, 2005).
Erik M. Conway, High Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2005).
Richard P. Hallion, Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond—The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558 (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1977).
Richard P. Hallion and Michael H. Gorn, On the Frontier: Experimental Flight at NASA Dryden (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2003).
Mel Horwitch, Clipped Wings: The American SST Conflict (Cambridge: MIT, 1982).
Richard J. Kent, Jr., Safe, Separated, and Soaring: A History of Civil Aviation Policy, 1961–1972 (Washington, DC: FAA, 1980).
F. Edward McLean, Supersonic Cruise Technology, NASA SP-472 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1985).
Peter W. Merlin, From Archangel to Senior Crown: Design and Development of the Blackbird (Reston, VA: AIAA, 2008).
Kenneth Owen, Concorde: Story of a Supersonic Pioneer (London: Science Museum, 2001).
Stuart I. Rochester, Takeoff at Mid-Century: Federal Civil Aviation Policy in the Eisenhower Years, 1953–1961 (Washington, DC: FAA, 1976).