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Noise “concerns” were very much genuine with the Concorde. An incredible achievement of technology and engineering, but an environmental disaster.

sschueller 8y ago
What about all the military aircraft?
- Someone1234 8y ago
  Military aircraft are highly restricted from going supersonic over populated areas too[0]. We live near a US Air Force base, we had a single sonic boom last year and the base put out a tweet/statement apologizing, and the pilot got written up. During national security incidents like 9/11 all bets are off. [0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44759/do-usaf-fighter-jets-go-supersonic-over-land https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44759/do-usaf-f...
  - WalterBright 8y ago
    When I was a kid in the 60s, sonic booms were regular from the AF. I always enjoyed them.
- dx034 8y ago
  Most countries have restrictions on when/where military planes are allowed to fly supersonic. If they have to cross the sound barrier over populated area (happened over southern Germany last year), this always causes a lot of publicity and can even result in shattered windows (which the military will pay for).
mrec 8y ago
The Russian Tu-144 knockoff was even worse. I've seen the passenger experience memorably described as "so loud you couldn't hear the person next to you screaming".
- mabbo 8y ago
  I couldn't resist learning more about this. > Passengers seated next to each other could have a conversation only with difficulty, and those seated two seats apart could not hear each other even when screaming and had to pass hand-written notes instead. Noise in the back of the aircraft was unbearable. Alexei Tupolev acknowledged the problem to foreign passengers and promised to fix it, but never had the means to do so. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144

sschueller 8y ago

What about all the military aircraft?

Someone1234 8y ago
Military aircraft are highly restricted from going supersonic over populated areas too[0]. We live near a US Air Force base, we had a single sonic boom last year and the base put out a tweet/statement apologizing, and the pilot got written up. During national security incidents like 9/11 all bets are off. [0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44759/do-usaf-fighter-jets-go-supersonic-over-land https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/44759/do-usaf-f...
- WalterBright 8y ago
  When I was a kid in the 60s, sonic booms were regular from the AF. I always enjoyed them.
dx034 8y ago
Most countries have restrictions on when/where military planes are allowed to fly supersonic. If they have to cross the sound barrier over populated area (happened over southern Germany last year), this always causes a lot of publicity and can even result in shattered windows (which the military will pay for).

mrec 8y ago

The Russian Tu-144 knockoff was even worse. I've seen the passenger experience memorably described as "so loud you couldn't hear the person next to you screaming".

mabbo 8y ago
I couldn't resist learning more about this. > Passengers seated next to each other could have a conversation only with difficulty, and those seated two seats apart could not hear each other even when screaming and had to pass hand-written notes instead. Noise in the back of the aircraft was unbearable. Alexei Tupolev acknowledged the problem to foreign passengers and promised to fix it, but never had the means to do so. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144