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I would love to see domestic super sonic air travel. Sadly I don't think it will ever come to be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tes...

For international flights the technology is more than proven. It's purely a market problem. I wish the boom teem well.

It's still a long way off, but we are working on building quieter supersonic planes [1]. I think we will almost certainly see the return of international supersonics first, but never is a very long time.

[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-begins-work-to-build-...

Good read, along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Concorde_Project

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