The Technical Note by C. H. E. Warren in the September Journal raises a question on the transfer of lift, of an aeroplane in supersonic flight, to the ground. This problem was considered in reference 2. It was shown that, as expected, the resultant of the pressure field produced by the aeroplane is equal to its lift. This apparent inconsistency with the N-wave pattern, predicted by Whitham stems from the fact that most applications of Whitham's theory are based on asymptotic forms for the velocity perturbations. Thus, the formula for the axial velocity perturbation is obtained by allowing (M2— l)l/2r/y to tend to infinity, where M is the flight Mach number, r the radial distance away from the aeroplane, y=x—(M2 — l)1/2, and x is the distance along the aeroplane flight direction. This approximation is valid in the vicinity of the shock waves emanating from the aeroplane.