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Wasn't regulatory hysteria. We just chose a more environmentally friendly and quieter technology to focus our energy. See my other comment about high bypass tur
by mmaunder 7y ago
Wasn't regulatory hysteria. We just chose a more environmentally friendly and quieter technology to focus our energy. See my other comment about high bypass turbofan engines in this thread.
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- Symbiote 7y agoI think gok refers to the American (and others) ban on supersonic flight over land, which significant restricted the routes Concorde could fly.
- ghaff 7y agoWell, yes, but I don't call it regulatory hysteria to ban planes from making sonic booms over land so that wealthy people can get from one coast to the other faster.
- gok 7y agoIf you want to be extremely kind to American regulators, you could argue that they banned sonic booms out of an overabundance of caution and wanted to see how bad of a problem it was. But it was clear after years of Concorde flights over Asia and Europe that it was non-issue. They kept the rules on the books as a favor to Boeing, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas.
- edmundsauto 7y agoAdmittedly, I don't know much about this. But how was it clear that it was a non-issue, and not just a different cultural preference?
- ggreer 7y agoIt's not a ban on sonic booms. It's a ban on supersonic flight. Even if someone invents a quiet supersonic aircraft, or flies at a higher altitude to reduce noise, the current FAA rules ban it.
- walshemj 7y agoA lot of nimbys with connections to the us plane making industry from a UK perspective and don't get me started on the TSR2
- lacker 7y agoSupersonic flight is going to get cheap.