A new executive order repeals a 52-year-old ban on commercial supersonic flights, while new technology can make supersonic flight quieter than ever before.

Supersonic flight began with dangerous experiments in the 20th century and culminated in Chuck Yeager breaking the sound ...

NASA recently took its new X-59 "quiet' supersonic jet for a drive during taxi tests, one of the final hurdles between the aircraft and its first flight.

While Boom Supersonic boasted about there being no audible sonic boom on the ground during the final test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator in February, its prospective airliner still isn't allowed ...

Amid efforts to lift a ban on supersonic flight over US soil, plane developer Boom says it’s getting closer to creating Concorde’s successor. But will enough people want to use it?

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil.

More than 20 years after the last commercial Concorde flight, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to repeal the ban on supersonic flight over land across the country.

What’s next for supersonic flight? Since 2003, there haven’t been any commercial supersonic flights, but that doesn’t mean no one is trying to return to the speedy glory days.

Politics Trump orders FAA to remove supersonic flight restrictions: ‘Bold new chapter in aerospace innovation’ By Victor Nava Published June 7, 2025, 12:59 a.m. ET ...

A bill proposed in 2017 never got traction. NASA has also been working on “quiet” supersonic aircraft as part of its Low-Boom Flight Demonstration project.

U.S. lawmakers introduced Wednesday the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act in a bid to revise the FAA’s 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil. The bipartisan legislation ...