I think you're right, though take-off noise was also the subject of many complaints about the Concorde, not just the sonic boom. Reducing take-off noise was al

I think you're right, though take-off noise was also the subject of many complaints about the Concorde, not just the sonic boom. Reducing take-off noise was already one of the design considerations of the Concorde, and supposedly the Concorde was better in this regard than the Russian Concordeski (Tu-144.)