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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by robotresearcher on Monday March 21, 2016 @05:32PM (#11332290)
Those data show slowdown to subsonic over the first 10-15 mins of that period.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by Retric on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:59AM (#11336607)
It also shows fairly linear acceleration to Mach 2 over the first 30 minutes of flight and very rapid deceleration from Mach 2 to Mach 1. Which IMO suggests they could use a different decent profile.
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