Regulations and Government
Congress Eyes Future of Supersonic Travel
Both the House and Senate are focused on possibilities for changing the ban.
Both the U.S. House and Senate versions of FAA reauthorization bills include measures directing the FAA to study the regulations banning supersonic flight over land to see if they could be updated to allow such operations by aircraft equipped with low- or no-boom technologies. (Photo: Aerion)
Both the U.S. House and Senate versions of FAA reauthorization bills include measures directing the FAA to study the regulations banning supersonic flight over land to see if they could be updated to allow such operations by aircraft equipped with low- or no-boom technologies. (Photo: Aerion)

The U.S. Congress is showing an appetite for revisiting the decades-long ban on supersonic travel over land. Both the House and Senate versions of FAA reauthorization bills include measures directing the FAA to study the regulations surrounding supersonic travel to see if they could be updated.


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