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America’s airspace is going supersonic again

The FAA is planning to revise America’s ban on commercial supersonic flight—as long as the “sonic boom” it emits can be ...
What the FAA is saying now is, hey, the speed of the plane isn't the problem; the sonic boom's power is. So why not regulate ...
The FAA proposed new noise standards for supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land.
Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a ...
For decades, supersonic flights over the continental United States have been banned by regulators due to the sonic booms ...