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by brandall10 31 days ago
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.

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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