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The Concorde was forbidden to fly overland in the USA because the sonic boom is horrible for the people underneath it. And it's even horribly loud flying subson
by mathw 10y ago
The Concorde was forbidden to fly overland in the USA because the sonic boom is horrible for the people underneath it. And it's even horribly loud flying subsonic.
We won't get supersonic commercial flight again without going suborbital (which seems likely to happen at some point, just land SpaceShipTwo somewhere else... like Australia), or someone figuring out how to design an airframe which dissipates the boom before it hits the ground.
People are working on that, though.
- SFJulie 10y agoWell, I have been looking at a map of USA ... It is a big country with a looot of space with inhabited zones. I have a picture for you to compare how small France is compared to USA http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/images/143.png http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/images/143.png Oh, and the mirage and rafale find inhabited places everyday to make their sonic bangs, so I am sure it can be done in the USA too and that their military planes are doing so too.