50 years of silence: It's time to end the speed limit in US airspace

Re:50 years of silence: It's time to end the speed limit in ... by flerchin on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:06PM (#35304666)

In any spot in the country, you can look up and see aircraft, or contrails, every day, all day. Unless near an airport, you generally do not hear them at all. Even with boom reduction technology, booms would be heard by everyone, everyday. This is _not cool_. The author makes a valid point that the restriction should be on the noise generated, not the speed, but even the mitigated booms would not pass a reasonable test.

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Re:50 years of silence: It's time to end the speed limit in ... by dghlsakjg on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:26PM (#35304884)

There is also the qualitative aspect.

I live near an Air Force base that luckily doesn’t do supersonic stuff.

Constant white noise, even at a pretty high level is something that can be tuned out pretty easily.

I’m not sure the same can be said of singular events like a sonic boom.

I think of it like the difference between a lawnmower half a block away, and a subwoofer the same distance.

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Re:50 years of silence: It's time to end the speed limit in ... by hypomanic on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:48PM (#35309809)

Constant background noise isn't really tuned out though. It leads to a lot of stress and negative health outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise

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