Sentences with phrase «booms over populated areas»

Furthermore, supersonic aircraft cost more to build and maintain and produce annoying sonic booms over populated areas.

Not exact matches

Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»

A big problem with supersonic flight was that the sonic boom made it too loud to fly over populated areas.