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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by fernly on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:01PM (#11332903)
Nostalgia... In the 70s I lived in a London suburb that was under one of the approach paths to Heathrow, and could always tell when Concorde was passing over on final. Its sound was many decibels above a 747 and had a harsh, rock-crushing quality.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by pacaro on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:36PM (#11337760)
Indeed. I lived in Reading from 79-82 and remember that school essentially paused everytime that Concorde passed overhead because you couldn't hear anything that was being said in the classroom for a couple of minutes
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