As anyone who lived in Central Florida or the Space Coast in the 80s and 90s can tell you, sonic booms from hypersonic objects returning from orbit are no joke.

As anyone who lived in Central Florida or the Space Coast in the 80s and 90s can tell you, sonic booms from hypersonic objects returning from orbit are no joke. It's worth putting up with once or twice a year when you know the space shuttle is returning from orbiting the planet. But I imagine most people would be pretty annoyed with constant sonic booms from rich people traveling across the globe.