{"id":148,"date":"2025-06-06T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-fast-tracks-supersonic-travel-amid-spate-of-flight-related-executive-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T23:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:58:38","slug":"trump-fast-tracks-supersonic-travel-amid-spate-of-flight-related-executive-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-fast-tracks-supersonic-travel-amid-spate-of-flight-related-executive-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fast-tracks supersonic travel, amid spate of flight-related executive orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that directs the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil, marking a major policy shift that occurred just weeks after lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation with the same aim. The order instructs the FAA to end the overland supersonic ban and create noise-based certification standards, allowing faster-than-sound travel as long as no audible sonic boom reaches the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;The reality is that Americans should be able to fly from New York to LA in under four hours,&rdquo; Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move could help accelerate commercial supersonic flight development, including efforts by Boom Supersonic. In January, Boom&rsquo;s XB-1 demonstrator became the first privately developed civil aircraft to break the sound barrier over the continental U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked for comment Friday, Boom CEO Blake Scholl wrote &ldquo;Booooom!&rdquo; in an email to TechCrunch. Added Scholl, &ldquo;The sound barrier was never physical &mdash; it was regulatory. With supersonic legalized, the return of supersonic passenger air travel is just a matter of time.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump also signed two other future-of-flight executive orders Friday: one to speed up drone commercialization and electric vertical takeoff vehicle development, and another to establish a federal task force on drone flight restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Trump fast-tracks supersonic travel, amid spate of flight-related executive orders<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that directs the Federal Aviation Administration to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil, marking a major policy shift that occurred just weeks after lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation with the same aim. The order instructs the FAA to end the overland supersonic ban and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-fast-tracks-supersonic-travel-amid-spate-of-flight-related-executive-orders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump fast-tracks supersonic travel, amid spate of flight-related executive orders&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}