4 ms·
Has Boom Supersonic solved the problem that when the government tested the impact of frequent sonic booms on the populated centres in the 1960s it drove people
by Tiktaalik 8y ago
Has Boom Supersonic solved the problem that when the government tested the impact of frequent sonic booms on the populated centres in the 1960s it drove people nuts, caused building damage, and people hated it?
https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/when-the-faa-blasted-oklahoma-city-with-sonic-booms-for-1649589210 https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/when-the-faa-blasted-oklahom...
I assume Boom is like so many startups in that they have ignored history and have barreled ahead anyway.
- ch4ch4 8y agoJust don't go supersonic until the plane is over the ocean?
- avichal 8y agoThey are going to fly transoceanic routes to start so they don't have to worry about sonic booms over population centers.
- api_or_ipa 8y agoThe US has banned overland commercial supersonic flights, so yea, going cross country is still an issue but there's still very lucrative oceanic routes that would be unaffected. Also, there's large, sparsely settled parts of the US, Canada and Russia that aircraft routinely fly great circle routes over where sonic booms would be of little to no concern.
- tim333 8y agoFrom their FAQ: >What about the sonic boom? >Boom's airliner is designed to maximize efficiency while producing a “boom” at least 30 times quieter than Concorde's. ...
- deepnotderp 8y agoHas the esteemed commenter considered that perhaps they aren't total idiots and since the 1960s low volume sonic boom airframes have been built? E.g. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lowboom/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lowboom/index.html