Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!parker
From: parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Number of Concorde ever build
Message-ID: <2574@epiwrl.EPI.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 89 15:49:29 GMT
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In article <9572@ut-emx.UUCP> tmca@emx.UUCP (The Anarch) writes:
>What gets me though is that neither Great Britain nor the U.S.A. will 
>allow them
>to fly supersonic over land (last I heard, anyhow) and yet both these nations
>allow their military junk to  make as much noise as it feels like.

This just isn't true.   Military jets rarely (never?) fly supersonic of
US land, except on the ranges out in the deserts where there aren't any
people and buildings.  When was the last time you heard a sonic boom
over a US city?