system

Why wait? If there is no public interest in setting a speed limit other than noise, then set a noise limit and go do something useful. Or better yet, go have a three martini lunch and stop bothering the productive people.

I’m so tired of these nimrods in government wasting resources. We would be better off giving them noble titles and sinecures and having them play dress up so the rest of us can live our lives and do things.

Am I wrong? Has cabin fever driven me nuts or just loosened my tongue?

1 reply

system

The original reasons that were given for the speed limit were noise and sonic boom. Any govt regulations should only focus on noise and sonic boom. If you can make a plane with no (or acceptable) sonic boom and acceptable noise that goes Mach 85 then you should be allowed to do so.

Note that if we do get to that point there will be people who pop up with additional objections. Those objections will be the typical nonsense that such people conjur up out of their imaginations.

system

The Concord never made a profit.
Airlines are racking and stacking traditional planes right now.
Rules are not keeping SST’s from being built, it’s money, money, and money.