True. It curtailed supersonic flight to be over the ocean only, and any subsonic legs were not economic to fly. But the people on the ground have a say in what flies overhead, if it makes a nuisance noise. Its service ceiling was 60,000 feet. A higher ceiling might have reduced the boom overpressure enough to allow overland routes, but it would have been more of an engineering challenge.
The good citizens of NY and DC did not like the sound of 4 Olympus engines on full afterburner each morning as the first Concorde flight took off. So they moaned and whinged to their governmental reps who pressured the administration who said no to Concorde. As it was built for the transatlantic route that was the end of it.
It was the noise problem that did for concorde, bloody do-gooders.
True. It curtailed supersonic flight to be over the ocean only, and any subsonic legs were not economic to fly. But the people on the ground have a say in what flies overhead, if it makes a nuisance noise. Its service ceiling was 60,000 feet. A higher ceiling might have reduced the boom overpressure enough to allow overland routes, but it would have been more of an engineering challenge.
The good citizens of NY and DC did not like the sound of 4 Olympus engines on full afterburner each morning as the first Concorde flight took off. So they moaned and whinged to their governmental reps who pressured the administration who said no to Concorde. As it was built for the transatlantic route that was the end of it.