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President Donald Trump signed an executive decree on Friday which orders the Federal Aviation Administration to raise the 52 -year ban on the supersonic flight on American soil, marking a major change in policy that occurred just a few weeks after the legislators introduced bipartite legislation with the same objective. The order asks the FAA to put an end to the terrestrial supersonic ban and to create noise -based certification standards, allowing a faster than sound trip as long as no audible sound boom reaches the soil.
“The reality is that the Americans should be able to fly from New York to Los Angeles in less than four hours,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House office and technological policy said on Friday.
This decision could help accelerate the commercial development of supersonic flights, including Boom Supersonic’s efforts. In January, Boom’s demonstrator XB-1 became the first developed in private civil aircraft to break the sound barrier on the American continent
Asked Friday, Boom’s CEO, Blake Scholl, wrote “Boooooom!” In a Techcrunch email. Added Scholl: “The sound barrier was never physical – it was regulatory. With legalized supersonic, the return of plane trips to supersonic passengers is only a matter of time. ”
Friday, Trump also signed two other Future flights orders: one to accelerate Drone marketing and electric vertical takeoff development, and another to establish a federal working group on Drone flight restrictions.
