The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a proposal that would lift the 50-year ban on supersonic flights over the ...
Proposed interim standards mark the agency's first major step to undo the decades-old ban.
Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between ...
Key Takeaways - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed to end its long-standing general prohibition on overland civil ...
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 US is taking major steps to end its 50-year ban on overland supersonic flight, with the FAA planning new noise-based rules that could open the door to commercial passenger jets travelling at over ...
The FAA proposed new noise standards for supersonic aircraft, moving to lift the decades-old ban on civilian supersonic flights over U.S. land.
The Federal Aviation Administration in 1973 prohibited civil aircraft from exceeding Mach 1 over US land to prevent disruptive sonic booms ...
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a proposed rule change Tuesday that would lift the ban on supersonic flights over the continental U.S. by non-military planes, a policy that’s been in ...
FAA moves to lift the U.S. supersonic flight ban, paving the way for coast-to-coast trips in under three hours.
A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the ...
The US is taking steps to reverse an over five-decade ban on trans-continental supersonic flights as it unveiled a proposed rule that sets noise-based standards for operating such aircraft.