this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
43 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
949 readers
45 users here now
A tech news sub for communists
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You can mitigate both problems vastly with design - especially (all kinds of) noise levels, which were an afterthought with Concord (which was still used 27 years).
The sonic booms alone don't need to be so huge & take do much energy.
Still don't think we need such (or that many) planes tho - but if we (for some reason) do & there is negligible difference to subsonic ones, why not.