The main objective of this paper is to provide guidelines for designing and calibrating a high quality, static, jet-noise research facility and making high-quality jet noise measurements. Particular emphasis is placed on methodology for determining if internal noise is dominant in the jet noise spectrum. A section of this document is devoted to clarifying the terminology associated with microphone frequency response corrections and providing a step-wise description of other corrections that must be applied to the measured raw spectra before the jet noise data can be considered accurate and ready for use for extrapolation to full-scale jet engine noise.
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