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Supersonic commercial travel could soon be coming to the U.S. following a new executive order lifting a 52-year ban on ...
NASA recently took its new X-59 "quiet' supersonic jet for a drive during taxi tests, one of the final hurdles between the ...
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.
NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...
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 ...
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.
SpaceX-owned Starlink, which began launching satellites in 2019, currently has more than 7,000 in orbit. The plane used for Thursday’s flight was a United Embraer E-175, with the tail number UA5717.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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?
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that aims to assemble passenger jets in North Carolina, celebrated President Donald Trump’s executive order Friday ending a 52-year-old ban on overland ...