The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde

Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde by digi_owl on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:56AM (#15500212)

I seem to recall reading about a supersonic business jet being designed by some company or other.

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Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde by simonh on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:04PM (#15500291)

There are several companies working on the idea. There’s been a lot of work done recently on advanced aerodynamic designs that would significantly reduce the sonic boom for a given size of aircraft. On smaller planes this might reduce it to levels that would be considered tolerable over populated areas.

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

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Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde by liquidise on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:04PM (#15500294)

Boom [1] has been on a number of HN comments, using a similar NYC <-> London model at a fixed cost.

1: https://boomsupersonic.com/

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Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde by Reason077 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:37PM (#15501141)

"Boom" is a terrible name for a company hoping to popularise supersonic transport. The "Boom" is not something they should be drawing attention to!

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Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde by Boothroid on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:54PM (#15503990)

If they've minimised the boom perhaps it's genius.

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