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   President Donald Trump signed a cluster of aviation-focused executive   
   orders on Friday, clearing a path for commercial flights that travel   
   faster than the speed of sound.   
      
   The White House seeks to establish the U.S. as the “undisputed leader in   
   high-speed aviation,” according to a summary of the order, and   
   specifically seeks to repeal the ban on overland supersonic flight, which   
   has been in place since 1973.   
      
   The order also instructs the Federal Aviation Administration to repeal   
   other regulatory barriers blocking supersonic flight and to create a noise   
   certification standard that accounts for “community acceptability,   
   economic reasonableness, and technological feasibility.”   
      
   Noise concerns over supersonic booms have plagued the promise of   
   supersonic travel since the technology’s early days. After the advent of   
   supersonic flight, Americans filed tens of thousands of complaints citing   
   disruptions from the noise and property damage, eventually leading to the   
   ban.   
      
   NASA, which has pushed for a repeal of the ban, set out to engineer a   
   “low-boom” supersonic jet that flies quietly to resolve noise nuisance   
   concerns. After years of development, the X-59 has cleared key tests and   
   is on the way to its first test flight. On the private side, aerospace   
   company Boom recently conducted a test flight of its own quieter   
   supersonic aircraft.   
      
   For more than 50 years, “outdated and overly restrictive regulations have   
   grounded the promise of supersonic flight, stifling American ingenuity and   
   weakening our global competitiveness in aviation,” the White House wrote   
   in a summary of the order, which follows proposed legislation introduced   
   in Congress last month that would allow supersonic civil aircraft to fly   
   as long as “no sonic boom reaches the ground in the United States.”   
      
   Adjacent executive orders also signed on Friday seek to boost domestic   
   commercial drone development and bolster U.S. defenses against the threat   
   posed by unauthorized drones, citing safety concerns over critical   
   infrastructure and large-scale events like the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los   
   Angeles.   
      
   https://www.fastcompany.com/91348476/supersonic-air-travel-gets-green-   
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