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by sounds 3741 days ago
Everywhere the plane is supersonic, it emits the boom. Your question implies that the only boom is when you "go super-sonic."

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/68354/is-a-sonic-...

Would a Mach 1 plane hear a boom if overtaken by a Mach 3 plane?

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/17243/does-a-mac...

I understand why you got downvoted, but I don't think the question was actually repellant. If it were at the top of the thread it would be annoying but here I find it a fun thought experiment.

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Didn’t get down-voted overall so fine on that end.

I actually never though of the existence of a continuous cone of focus outside of the plane — the graph I had seen were all focused on the whether the plane heard it.

I guess an alternative option would be to find routes above the polar circle, or through the narrow of Central america — but the increased distance would make it less interesting at “just” Mach 2.2.