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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by wizardforhire on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:47PM (#12789972)
I would love to see domestic super sonic air travel. Sadly I don't think it will ever come to be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tes...

For international flights the technology is more than proven. It's purely a market problem. I wish the boom teem well.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by 0xffff2 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:06PM (#12790695)
It's still a long way off, but we are working on building quieter supersonic planes [1]. I think we will almost certainly see the return of international supersonics first, but never is a very long time.

[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build-...

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by jjp on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:18PM (#12790218)
Good read, along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Concorde_Project
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