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Boom Promises ‘Boomless’ Supersonic Flights With Debut Airliner

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Boom Promises ‘Boomless’ Supersonic Flights With Debut Airliner

Photo: Boom Supersonic Boom Supersonic might have snatched aviation’s holy grail after announcing on Monday that its XB-1 test plane had completed its maiden supersonic flight two weeks ago without producing a sonic boom audible on the ground. The dreaded boom smothered early commercial supersonic flight in the crib. The FAA’s 1973 ban on overland … Read more

There’s A Relic Runway From America’s Failed Supersonic Future Hiding In The Everglades

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There’s A Relic Runway From America’s Failed Supersonic Future Hiding In The Everglades

Supersonic airliners never became as common as airlines and government officials hoped.Photo: Victor Drees/Daily Express/Hulton Archive (Getty Images) When supersonic flight was set to transform passenger air travel in the late 1960s, Miami-Dade County had grand ambitions of becoming the center of commercial aviation’s fledgling intercontinental network. Local government wanted to construct the world’s largest … Read more