Timeline for Won't sonic booms prevent Space X's BFR intercity transport plan from being acceptable?
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| Sep 30, 2017 at 18:39 | comment | added | Floris | "a carefully selected location" for takeoff would have to be far from a densely populated area. Which pretty much defeats the point of "getting quickly from A to B". You would first have to get from your area of population to A which is "far from civilization". Seems like a pretty deep flaw in the plan. I hope they have thought this through. | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 13:52 | comment | added | reirab | @ChrisStratton True, but, if it's anything like the Space Shuttle, that part of the approach will be too high to matter. Not sure about SpaceX's rocket, but the Space Shuttle descended extremely quickly. It was like piloting a brick. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 22:01 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | @reirab landing is subsonic, but part of approach is supersonic. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 18:26 | comment | added | reirab | Landing presumably won't be supersonic, so booms shouldn't be an issue there. 'Takeoff' (i.e. launch) will be noisy regardless of the boom. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 15:30 | history | answered | Jimy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |