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Volume 39, Issue 3
1 March 1967
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| March 01 1967

Sonic Boom and the SST: An examination of the sonic boom and its effects

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1967
Aircraft Engineering (1967) 39 (3): 14–18.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034241

SONIC boom is the name which has been given to the sound heard on the ground immediately following the passage of an aircraft overhead at supersonic speeds. This sound, which has been compared to nearby thunder, results from the passage of the aircraft's shock‐wave field over the observer.

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