Sonic boom reduction through the use of non-axsymmetric configuration shaping

41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Howe, Donald C ^a  

^a GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

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