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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by nimbius on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:56AM (#27381416)
you forgot another big one the Concord faced: cosmic radation. The plane carried a geiger counter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Radiation_concerns

Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by ginko on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:04AM (#27381525)
But even if you get a higher dose per unit of time, you spend less time in the air so your overall dose is lower. Your link mentions that. I guess the main exception would be for personnel that did a lot of flights. That could be reduced by requiring longer ground breaks than with subsonic aircraft.
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dharmab on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:18PM (#27383582)
The amount of radiation you receive during a regular flight is quite small, and more than you would receive on a supersonic flight: https://youtu.be/TRL7o2kPqw0?t=307
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by vmarsy on Thursday June 03, 2021 @02:21PM (#27385309)
Right, that's something I was wondering when Boom was announced a few years back [1]. Will radiation be even worse for the crew if the plane body is made of carbon-fiber vs thicker metal like the Concorde was?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12791122