Jens Thöben, Daniel Bodmer, Bernd Liebhardt, Volker Gollnick
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Conference Number HiSST-2022-215
A methodology is presented to design and assess basic operational aspects of hypersonic airliners.
Initially, a database of global airline ticket sales is used to identify promising origin-destination pairings
for hypersonic transportation. The encountered demand is pooled to be served by so-called Stratoports
that are strategically spread all over the globe. To connect the Stratoports, overwater flight routes are
designed with the help of mission simulation and sonic boom carpet computation to identify a noiseoptimal global route network guaranteeing that the sonic boom will not hit on landmasses. This work
was done in the context of the European Union project STRATOFLY.