Sonic Boom!
Bill Whittle says it’s hard to believe it, but it’s been 20 years since the Concorde SST (supersonic transport) was permanently retired.
He says the Concorde was a remarkable machine that plied the transatlantic trade at twice the speed of sound, the tooth-jarring sonic boom footprint limited to over-water flight. But the real promise of supersonic travel–Los Angeles to New York in a little over two hours–has never been practical due to that noise footprint. Until now.
Whittle and “Right Angle” colleagues Scott Ott and Steve Green discuss the ingeniously designed Overture, with its sonic thump, manufactured by Boom Technology of Denver, Colo.
