Trump signs executive order lifting ban on supersonic civil flights over land

It’s tragic that we’ve gone backwards in aviation in some ways in the past 30 years. The Concorde was a symbol of progress and it would be wonderful if I live to see the return of supersonic commercial aviation.

The fastest trip the plane did from New York to London was 2 hours and 52 minutes.

At supersonic speeds, a flight from New York to LA could take as little as two hours. There has been some progress — like the X-59 — in reducing the (very problematic) sonic boom.