How about a fleet of updated concords? It’s ridiculous the cross country/overseas travel time is the same today as it was in 1965.
The sonic-boom is what stops over-land supersonic passenger flights.
The point being, like a boat wake, you are responsible for the damage it does. Not sure that I would be too thrilled with listening to that crack multiple times per day either.
As far as supersonic over the ocean, fuel cost/consumption is a huge issue. The Concorde was ended because of the ticket prices which were $15K+ per seat at the time and was not producing real profits in keeping with what other aircraft could produce at the same time. Econ 101, alternative uses for money.
I remember the sonic booms of low flying marines(etc but mostly marines) at El Toro or on their way to Miramar. They’re not very fun. It’s not that we can’t get over 767 mph but you’d have a lot of very pissed off people. BOOM!
The market says people prefer the cheap ticket over the fast plane
IMHO sonic boom considerations will always make commercial SST “too hard” to do overland. If you really want to save time, figure out how to make commercial STOL aircraft so that you can obviate the need to assemble passengers into an airport as we know it. Hey, if Elon Musk can land rockets back on their launch pads . . .
” It’s ridiculous the cross country/overseas travel time is the same today as it was in 1965.”
Why,what’s the rush?
It stayed the same for many years prior to air flight.
From the Northeast to China takes about 14 hours-——to me that’s a miracle.
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