Timeline for Are rocket engines practical for commercial aircraft?
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 8:03 | comment | added | Andrew | No matter the justification used at the time the ban in the USA is more due to lobbying by the US aircraft manufactures than anything else. They didn't want US airlines flying european aircraft. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | alephzero | That's a political (and/or environmentalist) issue, not an engineering one. If the Boeing SST had ever come to anything, I doubt very much that the FAA would have banned it! | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | Air | Not only that, (civilian) supersonic air travel has been prohibited within the US by the FAA for decades: faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/apl/… | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 8:39 | history | answered | Andrew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |