Cessna researchers prepared to launch a blimp that carried several microphones used to record sonic booms for the FaINT project.
Project: Farfield Investigation of No Boom Threshold (FaINT)
Cessna researchers prepared to launch a blimp that carried several microphones used to record sonic booms for the FaINT project. The tethered blimp flew at an altitude of about 3,000 feet above ground to collect sonic boom data at that altitude.
Learn more.October 29, 2012
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