It's pretty exciting to find oneself routinely using "subsonic" as a name for a category of airliners.
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How did Boom solve the sonic boom problem? Will they only operate over ocean?
You can build much quieter planes now. But you can also make more than enough money just operating over oceans now.
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Oh, will check how, curious! I assume something functionally similiar to winglets, distributing the wavefront. Maybe there are equivalent measures on sea vessels.
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That's what the bulging nose below the waterline is for. Causes multiple wave-fronts which interfere and cancel out and reduces friction coupling between the hull and the water. It'll look diff for planes, obvs.
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My mum was a software engineer on the concorde design. Early version of CFD in fortran on punched cards on computers that would barely pass as alarm clocks these days. (She mentioned 32k memories on the *larger ones*!) Must remember to point her at the news about this.
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Could you reduce the sonic boom by crossing Mach 1 using a bit of a dive (engines low) instead of powering through it engines blazing (generating max audible output)?
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I think the boom is pronounced that instant, but there is still a conical wavefront during the whole supersonic journey.
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