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The US is clearing the runway for air taxis and supersonic jets

The FAA is moving to speed electric air taxis and civil supersonic flight to market, ending the 1973 overland Mach ban and fast-tracking eVTOL trials.
AOL

FAA Wants To Legalize Supersonic Flight If Sonic Booms Stay Quiet Enough

The FAA proposed a new rule that would unwind the current ban against supersonic flight over U.S. soil on Tuesday, replacing it instead with limits on the strength of sonic booms. The original rule ...
Ars Technica

FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the ...
Popular Science

After 53 years, the FAA wants to bring back civilian supersonic flight

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Newsweek

The Supersonic Era Is Back—What US Flights Might Look Like With New Jet

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Flights across the United States—and between major global cities—could ...
Fox Business

'Lightning speed': Supersonic civilian flights in US skies take another step toward swift return

The Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced that regulators are moving toward enabling civilian supersonic flights over the continental U.S., which have been banned for decades due to sonic ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Hit Another Major Milestone

After breaking the sound barrier for the first time, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet flew faster and at higher altitudes in preparation for its most crucial test. The experimental aircraft reached a speed ...
Engadget

NASA's X-59 reaches speed and altitude milestones ahead of first quiet supersonic flights

NASA's X-59 research plane took its first supersonic flight at the beginning of the month, and now it's demonstrated that it can reach the speed and altitude conditions it'll need to achieve for ...
AOL

Watch NASA Inch Closer To Its Sonic Thump Theory With The X-59's First Supersonic Flight

Air travel could once again move at the speed of sound. On Friday, while we were counting down the hours until the weekend, NASA took to the skies with its supersonic plane, the X-59, towards its ...
The Aviationist

NASA’s X-59 QueSST Goes Supersonic

NASA’s X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its flight envelope. NASA’s experimental X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) ...
Scientific American

NASA’s X-59 plane goes supersonic for the first time

NASA’s experimental X-59 plane is one step closer to making faster-than-sound flight quiet after the aircraft flew supersonic for the first time on June 5, reaching a peak speed of 713 miles per ...