NASA F-15B #836 in flight with Quiet Spike attached. The project sought to verify the structural integrity of the multi-segmented, articulating spike attachment designed to reduce and control a sonic boom.
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Project: Quiet Spike
NASA F-15B #836 in flight with Quiet Spike attached. While these tests didn’t actually ‘quiet’ the F-15’s sonic boom, they showed that the spike’s design was capable of use in a real flight environment. The flights and data being recorded were closely monitored in NASA Dryden’s mission control.
September 27, 2006NASA Photo / Carla Thomas› Quiet Spike Project Description