Potential boom for Boom
(Photo Boom Supersonic)
BOOM SUPERSONIC has welcomed bicameral legislation that seeks to repeal the current regulation banning civil supersonic flight over land. The legislation, known as the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act (SAM), calls on the FAA to update the blanket ban on civil supersonic flight over land, provided the aircraft doesn’t produce an audible sonic boom at ground level. The US imposed a speed limit in the skies in 1973, prohibiting civilian aircraft from exceeding the speed of sound over land. It was the law that prevented transcontinental supersonic Concorde operations, and the airframer has claimed “the ban has not only resulted in agonisingly slow commercial flights but has also stifled innovation in the American aviation industry.