Supersonic airliner startup Boom Technologies has launched an $800,000 prize for the first U.S. amateur team to fly a remotely piloted, air-breathing aircraft above Mach 1 in level flight twice in one ...

Boom Supersonic has launched the "Boom Prize," offering $800,000 ($750k cash + $50k stock) to the first amateur to build and fly a radio-controlled, air-breathing aircraft that repeatedly breaks the ...

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 US government has proposed new rules that could allow civilian aircraft to fly faster than the speed of sound over land without producing a disruptive sonic boom. If approved, the move could pave ...

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is clearing the way for the return of commercial supersonic air travel by revamping regulations for faster-than-sound aircraft for the first time since ...

A Concorde jet is moved into New York’s Intrepid Museum in 2023. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Imagine flying commercial between the West and East coasts in under three hours. It won’t happen anytime soon, but ...

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced on Tuesday afternoon that the Federal Aviation Administration is taking a “pivotal step” to make civil supersonic flights possible. The Department of ...

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking a step toward enabling civil supersonic flights over the continental United States. Thanks ...