<story><title>XB-1 Supersonic Rollout</title><url>https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>How does this seek to overcome the problem that killed Concorde: Civilian sonic booms over populations are &lt;i&gt;illegal&lt;/i&gt;, and most places aircraft want to fly to&amp;#x2F;from are cities?&lt;p&gt;Concorde found a kinda niche between the East Coast of the US and European cities near the sea, but it really doesn&amp;#x27;t feel sustainable for an entire aircraft class to be limited to only that route (and wasn&amp;#x27;t for Concorde).&lt;p&gt;If it doesn&amp;#x27;t go supersonic then what is the USP?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gok</author><text>Primarily they are targeting transoceanic routes. Transoceanic demand has increased substantially in recent years. Transatlantic traffic has doubled since Concorde went out of service. Transpacific travel has grown even more, and Concorde was unable to compete there.</text></comment>
<story><title>XB-1 Supersonic Rollout</title><url>https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>How does this seek to overcome the problem that killed Concorde: Civilian sonic booms over populations are &lt;i&gt;illegal&lt;/i&gt;, and most places aircraft want to fly to&amp;#x2F;from are cities?&lt;p&gt;Concorde found a kinda niche between the East Coast of the US and European cities near the sea, but it really doesn&amp;#x27;t feel sustainable for an entire aircraft class to be limited to only that route (and wasn&amp;#x27;t for Concorde).&lt;p&gt;If it doesn&amp;#x27;t go supersonic then what is the USP?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagger27</author><text>Their FAQ section^0 says this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Overture flights will focus on 500+ primarily transoceanic routes that benefit from supersonic speeds—such as New York to London or San Francisco to Tokyo. Overture won&amp;#x27;t generate a sonic boom over land cruising at subsonic speeds. Its passengers won&amp;#x27;t even notice breaking through the &amp;quot;sound barrier,&amp;quot; which will be inaudible and uneventful.&lt;p&gt;So I guess they haven&amp;#x27;t really solved physics. edit: in an economic way.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;boomsupersonic.com&amp;#x2F;contact#faq-section&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;boomsupersonic.com&amp;#x2F;contact#faq-section&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>