>>1089416>was the noise issue over land crossing flights a meme to make the concord fail or actually legit?Mostly a meme.
Concorde was *incredibly* loud at takeoff with full afterburners on: I live in Bristol, and it used to roar overhead when it took off from Filton. You'd hear it rumbling for a good five minutes.
But at supersonic speeds, at cruising height? You wouldn't hear it. You *certainly* wouldn't get the sorts of physical effects that people claimed; look at the Mythbusters episode where they deliberately tried to break a window with a jet fly-by. It basically has to shave the roof off the building to produce enough pressure to do anything at all. At 60,000ft? Hell no. At *worst* you'd hear a slight rumble.
In the end it was immaterial anyway: fuel & maintenance costs sealed the fate of Concorde more than anything else.
