Determination of the location of sonic boom

In the paper the results of theoretical considerations which permit to de¬termine the location of sonic boom of shock wave produced during supersonic flight are given. It has been assumed that the earth's atmosphere is a strati¬fied medium in which the velocity of sound propagation as well as wind velo-city are magnitudes which depend only on the height. For general case (at arbit¬rary manoeuvring of aircraft) a procedure algorithm has been defined which permits to predict the boundary of audibility area. It has also been proved that for certain types of manoeuvring (including also rectilinear flight), defined, by condition (9), this algorithm enables the determination of coordinates of audibility area (grazing points) (xA, yA) as well as (xB, yB) in the analytical form (10). In the case of still atmosphere the obtained results are simplified to a well-known relation (13) determining the width of audibility belt of a shock wave.