AOL

FAA Wants To Legalize Supersonic Flight If Sonic Booms Stay Quiet Enough

The FAA proposed a new rule that would unwind the current ban against supersonic flight over U.S. soil on Tuesday, replacing it instead with limits on the strength of sonic booms. The original rule ...
Ars Technica

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 US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the ...
Popular Science

After 53 years, the FAA wants to bring back civilian supersonic flight

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Newsweek

The Supersonic Era Is Back—What US Flights Might Look Like With New Jet

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Flights across the United States—and between major global cities—could ...
Ars Technica

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

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...
gematsu

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition now available for Switch 2

Experience Sonic like never before! In search of the missing Chaos Emeralds, Sonic becomes stranded on an ancient island teeming with unusual creatures. Accelerate to new heights and explore vast open ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Just Hit Another Major Milestone

After breaking the sound barrier for the first time, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet flew faster and at higher altitudes in preparation for its most crucial test. The experimental aircraft reached a speed ...
AOL

Watch NASA Inch Closer To Its Sonic Thump Theory With The X-59's First Supersonic Flight

Air travel could once again move at the speed of sound. On Friday, while we were counting down the hours until the weekend, NASA took to the skies with its supersonic plane, the X-59, towards its ...
Mashable

Watch NASA's new experimental jet break the sound barrier for the first time

NASA is testing the X-59, an experimental plane that was designed to exceed the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom. Credit: NASA / Carla Thomas NASA's X-59 jet has broken the sound barrier for ...
The Aviationist

NASA’s X-59 QueSST Goes Supersonic

NASA’s X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its flight envelope. NASA’s experimental X-59 QueSST (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) ...
IFLScience

NASA’s X59 Quiet Supersonic Plane Is About To Perform Its First Ever Supersonic Flight Test

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Post and Courier

It wasn’t an earthquake, Columbia, it was a sonic boom. What causes the enormous noise?

COLUMBIA — At 5:24 p.m. May 28, a great many people in the Columbia area heard a loud boom and felt the structures they were in shake. It wasn’t an earthquake, as many immediately suspected, given the ...