{"id":240851,"date":"2026-07-02T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:29:37","slug":"faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they\u2019re quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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 possible return of commercial supersonic airliners\u2014as long as such aircraft can reduce the ground-level impacts of their sonic booms.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA originally banned overland supersonic flights by civil aircraft in 1973, following US military tests involving supersonic flights over US cities such as Oklahoma City, Chicago, and St. Louis in the 1960s. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-announces-supersonic-flight-coming-us\">Trump administration has championed<\/a> the repeal of the ban to pave the way for supersonic airliners that could operate without disruptive sonic booms. So the FAA\u2019s new rulemaking action on June 30, 2026, follows the direction of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/06\/leading-the-world-in-supersonic-flight\/\">executive order <\/a>issued by President Trump on June 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The newly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/ARM-260115-001_Supersonic_NPRM_06-10-26.pdf\">proposed rule<\/a> would replace the 53-year prohibition with an interim \u201cnoise-based\u201d certification standard requiring any sonic boom overpressure at the surface to be kept below 0.11 pounds per square foot. That proposed standard is based on the Colorado-based startup <a href=\"https:\/\/boomsupersonic.com\/\">Boom Supersonic<\/a> having demonstrated quiet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mach_cutoff\">Mach cutoff<\/a> flights with its <a href=\"https:\/\/boomsupersonic.com\/flyby\/up-to-speed-february-2025\">XB-1 aircraft<\/a>\u2014harnessing specific atmospheric conditions while flying just beyond supersonic speeds at higher altitudes so that the aircraft\u2019s shockwaves are refracted upward into the atmosphere rather than traveling to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 possible return of commercial supersonic airliners\u2014as long as such aircraft can reduce the ground-level impacts of their sonic booms. The FAA originally banned overland supersonic flights by civil aircraft in 1973, following US military tests involving supersonic flights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they\u2019re quiet - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/faa-proposal-supersonic-airliners-can-fly-over-us-cities-if-theyre-quiet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they\u2019re quiet - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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