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PCBoom is a full ray trace sonic boom program that calculates sonic boom footprints and signatures from flight vehicles performing arbitrary maneuvers. It computes detailed ground signature shapes starting from a variety of near-field signature definitions. A series of comparisons of predictions with measured sonic boom data were performed using PCBoom Version 6 in order to test features of the program for which there are empirical sonic boom datasets. Data comparisons included in this paper cover a variety of aircraft types (F-4, F-16, F-14 and SSBD) undergoing different conditions (level flight, turns, accelerations, dives) and examine sonic boom predictions both undertrack and laterally. |
