Larry Dighera writes:

It seems that the next generation of supersonic airliners may be
permitted to fly over the US (to the west coast where I reside):

The problem of sonic booms was always vastly exaggerated, anyway (just
like the problem of solar flares). I heard sonic booms all the time
when I was little, and it never bothered me. I could never figure out
what the big deal was.

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