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Not necessarily a dealbreaker. Concorde did ok with British airways flying out of NY. Assuming the rules don’t change there are plenty of viable routes out of H
by SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
Not necessarily a dealbreaker. Concorde did ok with British airways flying out of NY. Assuming the rules don’t change there are plenty of viable routes out of Houston, NY, and SFO.
- doh 9y agoI never said it's a deal breaker, just that it's not possible to fly supersonic over the land. I do hope that the Boom team will be able to deliver a viable service for benefit us all. Would love nothing more than to travel faster.
- namelost 9y agoConcorde was a British-French aircaft, so it was allowed to fly over the UK. If it had been American, it would have been banned instantly. It was horrifically noisy.
- knz 9y ago> It was horrifically noisy. I saw it land/take off a handful of times as a kid. The noise was unlike anything else I've ever experienced - you could hear it many kilometers away and up close (on the airport boundary) you'd feel every internal cavity vibrating when it departed. As a child it was marvellous!