Need to get from New York to Los Angeles in 2 hours? Go supersonic!

[Deja Q]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/14/eveningnews/main3365889.shtml

"Politicians particularly are very afraid of the impact of a sonic boom sweeping across their constituency," says Guy Norris, the editor of Aviation Week.

But now, four years after Concorde's final flight, there are plans for a new generation of supersonic aircraft.

"Literally in the last two or three years, the call for a supersonic business jet has gained some traction," Noris says.

The QSST - or Quiet Supersonic Transport by Supersonic Aerospace International - could ferry Fortune 500 executives between New York and L.A. in just two hours.

(SNIP)

If supersonic business jets succeed, experts predict the return of commercial supersonic flight could follow sometime around 2030.

[robinlynne]

1. being under a supersonic plane is not fun. besides, i thought we were going for green?

[Deja Q]

3. Nope. Not with the Fortune 500 execs wanting this.

:shrug:

[Ezlivin]

5. The sonic booms will only affect what's left of the middle-class

And to whom are they going to complain? Congress?

Ha.

[GreenPartyVoter]

I wonder how you make a green supersonic jet?

[SergeyDovlatov]

10. using green paint, I guess n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I walked right into that one. LOL

[BrklynLiberal]

2. 1PM every day..as the SST took off from JFK.. We heard the boom where I live.

[robinlynne]

4. It shakes your whole house. It is awful.

[baldguy]

6. But its a "quiet" SST

Now, put your surviving china back on the shelf & shut up

[napi21]

7. I don't mean to make light of this, but is it really worse than a loud

clap of thunder? Aren't we complaining a bit too much?

[robinlynne]

8. oh, much worse than thunder. It makes everything shake. not just loud.

[depakid]

9. "Experts" predict?

I guess the so called experts think that jet fuel is just going fall from the sky like manna from heaven by 2030.

[MercutioATC]

12. Jesus, it's not even new technology, folks. No "boom", supersonic flight....

...there's a problem with that?

The only reason these planes aren't already flying is technophobes and morons who don't grasp the concept that, occasionally, something new gets invented.

[L. Coyote]

13. What is the carbon footprint of the flight?? Don't fly unless you must!