FAA Moves To End America’s 50-Year Supersonic Flight Ban So Boomless Jets Can Fly Over Land
The FAA is proposing to replace America’s blanket ban on overland supersonic flight with a ground-impact standard, allowing aircraft to exceed Mach 1 if they do not create a sonic boom at the surface. That could help companies like Boom and Hermeus, but it does not solve the hardest problems: engines, certification, airport noise rules, fleet economics, and finding enough premium-demand routes to
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