Trump orders FAA to remove supersonic
flight restrictions: ‘Bold new chapter
in aerospace innovation’
New York Post,
by
Victor Nava
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
6/7/2025 5:31:21 AM
President Trump is boosting supersonic aviation in the United States.
An executive order the commander in chief signed Friday directs the Federal Aviation Administration to repeal a 1973 rule prohibiting overland supersonic flight, establish new noise standards for aircraft and remove other regulations that get in the way of the development of high-speed planes.
“The United States stands at the threshold of a bold new chapter in aerospace innovation,” the president wrote in the order.
“For more than 50 years, outdated and overly restrictive regulations have grounded the promise of supersonic flight over land, stifling American ingenuity, weakening our global competitiveness, and ceding leadership to foreign adversaries.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/7/2025 6:26:33 AM (No. 1961006)
In my neck of the woods, dirt bikes with unrestricted mufflers are far worse than loud aircraft. Can't deny the little brats their fun but we could slow down aviation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
billa57 6/7/2025 6:49:04 AM (No. 1961013)
The technology exists. "Quiet Spike was a collaborative program between Gulfstream Aerospace and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to investigate the suppression of sonic booms. The patent was published with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2004 and is owned by Gulfstream Aerospace." No more excuse to hamper US progress like dims like to do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/7/2025 8:42:06 AM (No. 1961061)
I grew up in LA which is some 50 miles from Edwards where they tested all the new planes. We used to hear and feel sonic booms all the time. I don't remember any issue from them. Sometimes they felt like small earthquakes. As I recall in 1972 when they were outlawed it wasn't for any scientific reason but because the only commercial SST was from Europe, the US version was not built because they were too expensive to fly and there was no money in it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mean Gene 6/7/2025 9:06:56 AM (No. 1961070)
As hot as the world is getting lately I'm glad all our Air Force pilots would be able to practice war maneuvers.
They shouldn't all have to be near the ocean to practice.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/7/2025 11:02:45 AM (No. 1961105)
I haven’t heard a sonic boom in years. I’m looking forward to it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 6/7/2025 11:31:28 AM (No. 1961116)
I lived near Hill AFB and Edwards AFB as a kid in the late 60's for a couple years. Sonic booms were common and kind of cool. It was just one aspect of the space race and cold war that we got used to.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2025 12:41:53 PM (No. 1961132)
A prototype supersonic, yet low noise aircraft prototype has been flying out of Mojave, California's civilian test center for about a year. I have watched their test videos, and this is a very professionally run, competent group, even though they are a small startup company. Their aircraft is not patched together junker, either, a well made, highly sophisticated and properly maintained machine, by all that I can see.
This shows great forward-looking leadership from Trump. These new designs produce a much different
sonic shock profile, and at cruising altitude the ground noise levels should not be problematic.
Plus, I'm old enough, and a USN aviator's son, so that the sound of sonic booms in the 60s was super common, multiple times per day. We always said "The sound of freedom" when we heard the classic
double boom that a USN jet of that era made. Banning supersonic flight was an overreaction to a small number of incidents where a jet went supersonic at low altitude either by accident or some clown pilot showing off. THOSE did sometimes cause some damage. But the literally many hundreds of booms that I heard as a kid, zero damage to our homes around USN air stations like Oceana or Jax.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2025 1:24:43 PM (No. 1961156)
Test aircraft first supersonic flight. This is a 'low boom' design, so has odd, very long nose, and curved bottom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qisIViAHwI
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 6/7/2025 1:25:41 PM (No. 1961157)
Re #2, a family member, a now-retired test pilot flew a couple of evaluation flights with that and related aircraft, years ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/7/2025 3:06:04 PM (No. 1961197)
If we are lucky, sonic booms are a thing of the past.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 6/7/2025 3:15:12 PM (No. 1961200)
Wow, I well remember all those sonic booms in my youth....only just now realized I hadn't heard any in decades/eons! Interesting development....isn't it wonderful to have a President who can take the 'long view' of things?! Re #7/8/9, thanks for highlighting that XB-1 test flight video on Youtube.....awesome!! I even learned something: never realized the Concorde's nose dip was to solve a runway-visibility issue!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/8/2025 7:40:21 AM (No. 1961474)
Growing up in Oklahoma as a kid we had to endure those very USAF/FAA sonic boom tests that lead to the restriction by the FAA on supersonic flight over the continental U.S. and yes, there were very good reasons for that restriction. Those booms damaged houses, broke China and glassware, and definitely rattled nerves. There’s a lot of documentation to go along with that study. Trump seems very naive when it comes to matters of aviation. If there’s one directorate of the Executive Branch that’s done exemplary work over its history and lived to its original Congressional Charter, it’s the FAA. It is one government body the whole world looks to for aviation standards to this day. Trump is swinging a “chainsaw” in the “thicket” of government regulations, when a handsaw and rational thought better serve the nation.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chillijilli 6/8/2025 8:27:40 AM (No. 1961503)
Egads. Imagine what the left will do with this. They will claim that since it's well-known that being around fireworks is treacherous for animals, sonic booms have the potential to wipe out an entire endangered breed? We will be the Bad Guys led by Orange Man, who are coming for your fur babies because we are privileged humans who are committing hate crimes against all animals. The media will go bonkers on this.
Where's Rush with his Born Free audio clip?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/8/2025 9:59:35 AM (No. 1961565)
Looks like...America is on her way to more bold interaction with supersonic c challenges...good for our President Trump...he gets the job done....and let's face it...he doesn't have to worry about winning re-election...the pollsters can't scare him....and Carl Rove and lying Ryan are out of a job...the rinos have nothing to complain about...President Trump is doing the job he promised republicans would do if elected...and don't you just love winning!!
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