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FAA takes first steps to repeal supersonic flight ban

Proposed interim standards mark the agency's first major step to undo the decades-old ban.

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 ...
Ars Technica

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

I was an Avionics Sensor Tech at Beale AFB. I worked Side Looking RADAR on the SR-71, so I was always around during air shows. Only once, there was a 80,000 foot Mach 3 flyby. Yes there was a boom but ...
Business Insider

Take a look at the silent X-59 aircraft, NASA's experimental attempt at creating a supersonic jet with a quieter sonic boom

Earlier this month, NASA unveiled the X-59 aircraft, its experimental supersonic jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound — with a "sonic boom" no louder than the bounce of a basketball.