y_p_w
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Amazing that commercial passenger jet air travel speed hasn't increased in 70 years.
On a successful sustainable scale.
Supersonic flight is loud, so pretty much all Concorde routes were over water. Might even break a few windows. And people complain about the noise at airports even without supersonic flight. SNA is a prime example of that.
The Concorde needed afterburners to take off and to go transonic. That's going to be loud as heck and used a lot of fuel. I'd imagine the people living near airports didn't appreciate it. Boom says that they don't have or need afterburners, so maybe that will help with acceptance. I don't think they're ever going to be allowed to go supersonic in passenger service over land though.
Then there's fuel consumption. I don't know if I buy the Boom CEO's claim that it might end up cheaper than current air travel, but they can certainly try to achieve that.