Colorado’s supersonic jetliner gets a tailwind from Trump order

President Trump signed an executive order Friday that could clear the skies for Boom Supersonic’s Overture, the sleek craft being designed and tested at Centennial Airport that could become the world’s first faster-than-sound jetliner since the Concorde’s final flight in 2003.

The White House described the order as one that ended “decades of stifling regulations” that had grounded U.S. efforts to reestablish supersonic airline flights.

These, the order said, would be replaced by new noise standards that might allow supersonics to be certified for overland flights, following a regimen of research and tests.

The Anglo-French Concorde entered commercial service in 1976, but its operations were practically entirely transoceanic routes like London or Paris to New York, rather than over land,