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NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft flies in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E as part of the F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) project. | ||
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Photo Number: | EC02-0041-4 | |
Photo Date: | February 13, 2002 | |
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Formats: | 524x480 JPEG Image (73 KBytes) 1117x1023 JPEG Image (460 KBytes) 3000x2750 JPEG Image (5,505 KBytes) |
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Description: |
NASA's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft recently flew in the supersonic shock wave of a U.S. Navy F-5E in support of the F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration (SSBD) project, part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Quiet Supersonic Platform (QSP) program. The flights originated from the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. Four flights were flown in order to measure the F-5E's near-field (close-up) sonic boom signature at Mach 1.4, during which more than 50 shockwave patterns were measured at distances as close as 100 feet below the F-5E. |
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NASA Photo by: | Jim Ross | |
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Keywords: |
F-15B Research Testbed aircraft; U.S. Navy F-5E; F-5 Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration Project; SSBD; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; DARPA; Quiet Supersonic Platform; QSP; Mach 1.4 |
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