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Originally the Concorde had secured about 100 orders over 16 different airlines before the bans on SST travel over land came into effect. While not the sole reason for the Concorde's demise such an act did cripple its economic prospects, allowing the program to survive with 20 aircraft under...

@SteamKing Silly me. Thank you kindly for helping me and my muddle good sir! @boneh3ad I found out that the Phantom F4E had a ratio of 0.044, I then just picked 0.03 thinking that if SST travel were ever to become feasible the engineering would probably have to be close to that area to keep...

Hello everyone. Recently I have had a lingering need to (in a loose sense) conceptualize the aerodynamic resistance of an object traveling at high supersonic velocity. However it has been a long time and I am rusty on my physics. I am looking for a ballpark figure on the Newtons and Joules (1...