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Why does it have negative associations for us techies? It sure doesn't for me.
by _vn5r 11y ago
Why does it have negative associations for us techies? It sure doesn't for me.
- mikeryan 11y agoIn the previous thread some associated "Boom" with "Something blowing up" which wasn't perceived as a great name for a plane.
- zdean 11y agoYeah, I thought it was a horrible name in light of the fact that the last supersonic jet program was permanently grounded because of a crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
- Alphasite_ 11y agoWas it not grounded due to Airbus ending their support agreements?
- aptwebapps 11y agoThat just moved things up a bit - they were already winding it down.
- snissn 11y agoMakes me think of the challenger disaster [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...
- CalRobert 11y agoThe first thing that came to my mind was sonic boom, which made me think of Guile from Street Fighter II, who was one of my favourite characters. It also reminded me of my dad describing the sound of sonic booms as jets passed overhead (he lived fairly close to an air force base). Then I read more comments here and now I think of crashing and death :-(.
- abritishguy 11y agoOne of the difficulties Concorde had was the sonic boom, drawing attention to it doesn't seem wise.