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able funds, establishment of criteria for such special research action, and provision for an immediate authorizing action when needed. Coordination of the work of this Committee has been established with the other Committees and groups in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering who are interested in problems of response to aircraft noise. This close coordination should be continued where problems of these groups are closely interrelated. Similar close working relationships have been established and should be continued with the Department of Transportation's Interagency Aircraft Noise Abate- ment program organization, and so on. Coordination of Government agencies interested in aircraft noise problems with such international agencies as the French Anglo-Saxon United States Supersonic Transport Committee (FAUSST) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) should be continued and expanded where necessary. Maintenance and interpretation of existing knowledge from research on human response to sonic booms and related phenomena should be done on a constant up-dated fashion so that senior govern- ment managers who have to make important policy judgments, and, researchers who have to plan and design future research will have ready access to the current state of the art. Such an effort should include the reexamination of old data in the light of newly developed techniques, the preparation of summaries of pertinent work, and the maintenance of these summaries in reasonably current status. An appropriate agency in the Government should be selected for such work and its existence widely publicized, particularly in the scientific and technical journals, so that its accumulation of sonic boom information can be made widely available. VI. CONCLUSION As previously stated, the sooner the various facets of human response to the sonic boom are understood and the level of boom which will be widely acceptable to the general public is determined, the sooner the engineering team responsible for aircraft design and develop- ment can come up with a commercial SST which will be able to fly over even heavily populated areas with a minimum of disturbance. It is believed that the above outlined research program, if carried out with vigor and imagination, will be a major contributor to establishing the proposed design goal. The technological challenge will then be one for American ingenuity and engineering skill to resolve. -12-
TL 574 .355 N32 1968 c.i National Research Council I (U.S.). Committee on SSTJ Report on human response TL 574 .S55 N32 1968 c.l National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on SST- Report on human response the sonic boom
