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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by jfk13 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:38AM (#32484255)
Would they be allowed to go supersonic for LAX-JFK?
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by krallja on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:41AM (#32484309)
No, that route is over land.
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by arcticbull on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:14PM (#32485820)
Ah yes, I should have said 'I see a potential market for faster premium air travel on both the LAX-JFK legs and the JFK-LHR legs within the range of the Boom plane' - you are of course correct that they would not be able to fly LAX-JFK supersonic.
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by wbl on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @04:47PM (#32488696)
Between PA and LA there are not a lot of populated areas so strearing around them should be possible.
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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by krallja on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:32AM (#32510190)
14 CFR Part 91.817, in essence, prohibits anyone from operating a civil aircraft at a true flight Mach number greater than 1 over land in the United States and from a certain distance off shore where a boom could reach U.S. shores.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/supersonic-flight

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