In you'll indulge me in another question that's been on my mind recently! Watched & read various things about the noise monitoring on Concorde's flight out of JFK in order for her to be able to fly in & out at the start of her service life.
Obviously a very inventive solution was practiced and executed which resulted in the noise monitors registering no problem whatsoever - indeed, people wondering why on earth no other aircraft doing the same procedure.
However, my question is this - What if she hadn't done this procedure? Would she have been too loud for the noise monitors? Was it actually necessary to perform the procedure? Politically it was a great idea, and no possibility of failure could be allowed at the time. But was she actually too loud in reality for the JFK noise monitors?
- Davva