EC04-0010-02 One of many microphones arrayed under the path of the F-5E SSBE Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment aircraft to record sonic booms.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
