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by goldfishgold 31 days ago
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Their claim is the boom won't actually reach ground level for overland flights due to how they're profiled.

Of course that's the theory. The Trump Admin just allowed for a fairly audible boom.

Where is this claim?
From the top of their corporate website, there is a video explaining this:

https://boomsupersonic.com/boomless-cruise

And from the top of their wikipedia page:

"is expected to reach supersonic speeds without causing a sonic boom at ground level by taking advantage of a physics phenomenon known as mach cutoff"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Overture