EC04-0010-03 A United States Air Force Test Pilot School Blanik L-23 glider carrying a microphone and a pressure transducer flies near a BADS Boom Amplitudes Direction System sensor following flight at an altitude of 10 thousand feet under the path of the F-5E SSBE aircraft.The SSBE Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment was formerly known as the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration, or SSBD, and is part of DARPA's Quiet Supersonic Platform QSP program. On August 27, 2003, the F-5E SSBD aircraft demonstrated a method to reduce the intensity of sonic booms. January 13,2004 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
