Statistical analysis of community response to low amplitude sonic boom noise

Hodgdon, Kathleen K.; Page, Juliet A.; Gaugler, Trent; Phillips, Daisy; Shumway, Durland L.; Rosenberger, James L.

doi:10.1121/1.4805772

Cited by 3 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The requirements and techniques used to meet these objectives are discussed in the aforementioned studies. 2,3 Another project objective of WSPR was to expose a residential community with at least 100 volunteer human response subjects to low booms, which are sonic booms similar to those predicted to be produced by next-generation commercial supersonic aircraft. Ideally, the human response subjects would be uniformly spread across the community, occupying various but known types of housing structures.…”

Section: B Project Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Flight Research Overview of WSPR, a Pilot Project for Sonic Boom Community Response

Cliatt

Haering

Jones

et al. 2014

32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In support of the ongoing effort by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to bring supersonic commercial travel to the public, the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center and the NASA Langley Research Center, in cooperation with other industry organizations, conducted a flight research experiment to identify the methods, tools, and best practices for a large-scale quiet (or "low") sonic boom community human response test. The name of the effort was Waveforms and Sonic boom Perception and Response (WSPR). Such tests will be applied to building a dataset that governing agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration and the International Civil Aviation Organization will use to establish regulations for acceptable sound levels of overland sonic booms. The WSPR test was the first such effort that studied responses to non-traditional low sonic booms while the subject persons were in their own homes and performing daily activities.The WSPR test was a NASA collaborative effort with several industry partners, in response to a NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Research Opportunities in Aeronautics. The primary contractor was Wyle (El Segundo, California). Other partners included Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

show abstract

Section: B Project Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Flight Research Overview of WSPR, a Pilot Project for Sonic Boom Community Response

Cliatt

Haering

Jones

et al. 2014

32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Knowing the types of homes the subjects lived in is valuable since sonic booms have different effects on different structures. 5 Being able to coordinate closely with EAFB allowed us to know the exact housing types within the area. All homes were stucco construction, and housing types consisted of duplex units and single-family detached homes.…”

Section: Human Response Subject Outreach and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This error pertains to the difference between true and indicated Mach, and 0.045 Mach can result in up to 1.7 nm error in low boom sonic boom location. 5 Since several F-18 aircraft were used during WSPR, the airdata calibration for each aircraft needed verification. Three aircraft (F-18A-843, F-18B-846, and F-18A-850) recently had undergone modification, the installation of a Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) antenna.…”

Section: Aircraft Air Data Calibrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper focuses on NASA's role in the project on essential elements of community response testing including human response subject recruitment, the operational processes involved in implementing the surveys throughout the community, instrumentation systems, flight planning, and operations. Actual sonic boom human response results, 5 survey methodology conclusions, 6 and sonic boom analysis 7 are presented separately.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

A flight research overview of the Waveforms and Sonicboom Perception and Response Project, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's pilot program for sonic boom community response research

Cliatt

Haering

Holtz

et al. 2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA)'s ongoing effort to bring supersonic commercial travel to the aerospace industry NASA, in cooperation with other government and industry organizations, conducted a flight research experiment to identify the methods, tools, and best practices for a large-scale sonic boom community human response test. The name of the project was Waveforms and Sonicboom Perception and Response (WSPR). Such tests go towards building a dataset that governing agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration and International Civil Aviation Organization will use to establish regulations for acceptable sound levels of overland sonic booms. This paper focuses on NASA's role in the project on essential elements of community response testing including recruitment, survey methods, instrumentation systems, flight planning and operations. Objectives of the testing included exposing a residential community with sonic boom doses designed to simulate those produced by the next generation of commercial supersonic aircraft. The sonic booms were recorded with an instrumentation array that spanned the community. Human response data was collected using multiple survey methods, and was correlated to acoustic metrics from the sonic booms. The project resulted in lessons-learned and the findings of appropriate methods necessary to implement a successful large-scale test.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A flight research overview of the Waveforms and Sonicboom Perception and Response Project, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's pilot program for sonic boom community response research

Cliatt¹,

Haering²,

Jones³

et al. 2013

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Statistical analysis of community response to low amplitude sonic boom noise

Cited by 3 publications

References 0 publications

A Flight Research Overview of WSPR, a Pilot Project for Sonic Boom Community Response

A Flight Research Overview of WSPR, a Pilot Project for Sonic Boom Community Response

A flight research overview of the Waveforms and Sonicboom Perception and Response Project, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's pilot program for sonic boom community response research

A flight research overview of the Waveforms and Sonicboom Perception and Response Project, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's pilot program for sonic boom community response research

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About