Supersonic jet builder teases 5.5-hour flight time from SF to Tokyo

Back in the days of the European-built Concorde supersonic transport, or SST, which was operated by British Airways and Air ...
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$800K boom prize challenges amateurs to build supersonic airplanes

Nearly 80 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, new competition aims to unearth the next advancement in ...

The Concorde dream is within reach. NASA X-59 just has to silence the supersonic boom

NASA’s X-59 has reached 924 mph and 55,000 feet, bringing the agency closer to proving that future supersonic passenger ...

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

A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Aeronautic engineering has come a long way since then, ...

The FAA Plans to Lift the 50-Year Ban on Supersonic Flight Over Land

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a proposal that would lift the 50-year ban on supersonic flights over the ...

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 ...

Supersonic Flights May Return to U.S. as FAA Proposes New Noise Standards

For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms ...
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FAA Moves to Lift Ban on Overland Supersonic Flight

Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between ...

NASA’s X-59 flew supersonic for the first time, and the quiet-boom experiment could change flight over land

NASA's X-59 has officially gone supersonic. See how this experimental jet aims to turn disruptive sonic booms into a quiet thump.

This new airline rule just made way for supersonic flight, minus the sonic boom

Supersonic jets, that we can use, might be coming back to the skies for real. The US Department of Transportation has ...

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

The FAA proposed new noise standards for supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land.
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XB-1 supersonic aircraft smashes sound barrier without explosive boom

If you've been keeping tabs on aviation news as of late, you saw that Boom Supersonic just recently broke the sound barrier with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. Oddly enough, no one on the ground ...