Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban
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- Travel FAA Makes Way For Return Of Supersonic Flight—Minus The Boom By Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
- Topline The Trump administration has taken an important step in replacing a five-decades-old ban on supersonic flight over U.S.
- A 2016 photo of Blake Scholl and Joe Wilding, two of three co-founders of Boom Supersonic, standing in front of an early model at the company's hangar in Centennial, Colorado.
Travel FAA Makes Way For Return Of Supersonic Flight—Minus The Boom By Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Topline The Trump administration has taken an important step in replacing a five-decades-old ban on supersonic flight over U.S. land, claiming technological advances now make it possible to fly faster than the speed of sound without the ear-shattering boom.
A 2016 photo of Blake Scholl and Joe Wilding, two of three co-founders of Boom Supersonic, standing in front of an early model at the company's hangar in Centennial, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson)Denver Post via Getty ImagesKey FactsThe Department of Transportation intends to replace the ban on overland supersonic flight with a noise limit, allowing aircraft to fly faster than Mach 1 over land as long as the resulting noise stays below a set level, according to a notice published Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the Federal Register.