{"id":14602,"date":"2003-09-08T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/sonic-boom-less-supersonic-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T11:10:00","slug":"sonic-boom-less-supersonic-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/sonic-boom-less-supersonic-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Boom-Less Supersonic Aircraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/news\/n0309\/06supersonic\/\" title=\"F-5E SSBD\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"F=5E SSBD\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/f-5e_ssbd.jpg\" \/><\/a>It&rsquo;s common knowledge that when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/factsheets\/Sonic_Boom.html\" target=\"_blank\">sonic boom<\/a> is generated.  It has long been known that the sound associated with a sonic boom can be attenuated by varying the shape of the aircraft, but until now this had never been proven.  <em>Spaceflight Now<\/em> reports that NASA and <acronym title=\"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\">DARPA<\/acronym> have completed tests with a modified F-5E aircraft in the <acronym title=\"Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration\">SSBD<\/acronym> project, <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/news\/n0309\/06supersonic\/\" title=\"F-5E SSBD\" target=\"_blank\">changing the shape of the fuselage and wing to greatly reduce the loudness of the sonic boom.<\/a>  This is quite a breakthrough, and I can definitely see this affecting the design of future supersonic aircraft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106301945694930785?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s common knowledge that when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, a sonic boom is generated. It has long been known that the sound associated with a sonic boom can be attenuated by varying the shape of the aircraft, but until now this had never been proven. Spaceflight Now reports that NASA and DARPA have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/08\/sonic-boom-less-supersonic-aircraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sonic Boom-Less Supersonic Aircraft?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}