Turbulent vortex rings are one of the few examples of nearly stable flow structures in high Reynold's number flows. An investigation of their pressure and flow field characteristics could contribute to our understanding of the processes that couple (dilitational) acoustic fields and rotational flow fields. For this study an electromagnetic method for generating vortex rings of highly repeatable form was developed. The propagating rings were visualized by means of laser sheet illumination and aerosol seeding of the flow. The velocity field associated with a vortex ring was measured by multiple pulse modulation of the illuminating laser beam and direct photographing of the observed particle motions. The pressure field associated with the ring was measured with an array of membranes. Numerical data processing methods were employed to distinguish the acoustic component of the total flow field at various distances from the turbulent core of the vortex ring. Some possible implications of the results for low‐wavenumber components of turbulent boundary layer flow will also be discussed. [Research sponsored by ONR.]