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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sonic Booms
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Date: 23 Jun 89 02:22:08 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>> Audibility of sonic booms on the ground seems to be a very complicated
>> function of altitude, aircraft configuration, atmospheric conditions,
> 
>But not too complicated that it cannot be expressed as a simple equation.
>The distance y at which the farthest ray of sound from an atmospheric
>source hits the surface of the Earth is a function of...

Sigh, please read my posting again.  I said "audibility", not "location".
The issue is intensity, not arrival time and location (which are indeed
pretty predictable).

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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