Wasn’t the problem with concord that it traveled too fast to travel on most flightpaths because the sonic boom could damage buildings on the ground below?
That and fuel consumption. However, given that high speed rail is making domestic flights largely irrelevant at this point, it might make sense to focus specifically on long haul flights.
You can mitigate both problems vastly with design - especially (all kinds of) noise levels, which were an afterthought with Concord (which was still used 27 years).
The sonic booms alone don’t need to be so huge & take do much energy.
Still don’t think we need such (or that many) planes tho - but if we (for some reason) do & there is negligible difference to subsonic ones, why not.
Wasn’t the problem with concord that it traveled too fast to travel on most flightpaths because the sonic boom could damage buildings on the ground below?
That and fuel consumption. However, given that high speed rail is making domestic flights largely irrelevant at this point, it might make sense to focus specifically on long haul flights.
… Gives thousand mile stare in not having low speed rail
as a Canadian I can relate
You can mitigate both problems vastly with design - especially (all kinds of) noise levels, which were an afterthought with Concord (which was still used 27 years).
The sonic booms alone don’t need to be so huge & take do much energy.
Still don’t think we need such (or that many) planes tho - but if we (for some reason) do & there is negligible difference to subsonic ones, why not.