Discussion
The chief reason a supersonic transport has proved economically difficult is
Answer: C
Wave drag and the poor lifting efficiency of a thin, slender wing together halve the lift-to-drag ratio relative to a subsonic transport, and fuel burn per seat-mile follows directly. The engineering was demonstrated decades ago; it is the economics, along with the sonic boom overland, that has proved intractable.
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