Blake Scholl
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Turns out this is a software solution.
You just need today's weather data and an algorithm, and it tells you what speed and altitude to fly.
And then there's no boom.
No kidding.
It's actually really simple.
Wow.
We can talk about why people have made it out to be a harder problem than it is.
Let's do it.
I think there is a, so like NASA, for example, has been working on sonic boom suppression for decades.
And they've got this R&D airplane called the X-59.
They've been working on it for longer than boom has existed as a company.
And it hasn't flown yet.
They're going about this with completely different physics.
It's this very long, skinny airplane, which I think is part of why it hasn't flown yet.
It's really hard to make that work.
And the idea is if you stretch the airplane out, it kind of spreads the boom out across more time.
And so when you hear it, it's quieter.
Okay.
And that thing can go up to Mach 1.4.
Boomless tops out at about Mach 1.3, so they can go very slightly faster.