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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 12-15

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... Current understanding of sonic boom loadings and of the responses of building materials and assemblies to such loadings is insufficient to assess accurately what kinds and amounts of physical damage will occur. The probability of material damage being caused by sonic booms generated by aircraft operating supersonically in a safe, normal manner is very small.
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... 4. Contracts should be let to several competent companies specializing in instrument-data-recording-and-retrieval systems to propose the characteristics for an economical monitoring system, and to accomplish preliminary cost effectiveness analyses of the proposed system.
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From page 15...
... . Committee on SST Report on physical effect TL 574 .855 N31 1968 c.l National Research Council (U.S.)
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