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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by dsjoerg on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:24PM (#17015094)
There's lots of water near NYC and SF so maybe you do your sonic boom over the water and then turn towards land?
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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by itp on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:03PM (#17015471)
That's not how a sonic boom works. A sonic boom doesn't occur just at the moment that an object exceeds the speed of sound; it's a continuous phenomenon that is experienced by a stationary observer as a momentary event.

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

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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by hamandcheese on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:04PM (#17015482)
The sonic boom is continuous at speeds above Mach 1
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