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If you check out the flight times link at their web site: http://www.saiqsst.com/

You'll see they expect to turn LA-New York into a 2:15 trip.
If a plane's going to cost $80M, it had better be able to fly fast enough over land to make a serious difference in transit time.

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http://www.aerioncorp.com/tech_sonic-boom-compliance.html

and they say they expect to get the overpressure from the shock wave down to 0.8 pounds/square foot. (The Concorde was around 2PSF)

The QSST design is expected to be around .3 PSF, according to their FAQ:

http://www.saiqsst.com/faq.html

-jcr]]>Dec 20th 2007 4:57PM