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

After 50 years, commercial flights over the United States are on the brink of going supersonic. The Federal Aviation Administration last week published a notice of proposed rulemaking to upend a ban ...

The FAA also revealed plans for more rules to come later this year, which would establish landing and takeoff noise standards for any aircraft flying at Mach 1 and above—the benchmark for supersonic ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a landmark notice of proposed rulemaking that officially lifts the 1973 prohibition on civil supersonic flight over the continental United States. US ...

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 ...

Forward-looking: The dream of crossing the US at stupid speeds without everyone underneath threatening lawsuits has moved a step closer. The FAA has published a proposed rule that would replace the ...

Does this in a round-about way benefit the space companies? Would this allow Space X and Blue Origin to land their rockets back in the US by allowing them to make sonic booms over the continental US?

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The rule sets an allowable noise standard that should allow for supersonic flight when in the “Mach cut-off” regime. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed repealing the USA’s ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic's prototype XB-1 supersonic aircraft. Photo Credit: Boom Supersonic The FAA has begun the formal regulatory process that would allow for commercial and private supersonic flights over ...

A plane built by Nasa has broken the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, bringing civilian supersonic flights a step closer. The experimental X-59 aircraft, dubbed the “Son of Concorde”, ...