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Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/33963501

On Tuesday March 12, the US Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) announced that it was extending a ban on US flights to Port-au-Prince through September 8. The move comes as the security situation in and around the Haitian capital remains in a tumultuous and dire state due to armed gang violence.

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/33963583

Officers working for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscate prohibited items from passengers daily at airports across the United States. Most of these cases involve travelers carrying harmless objects out of ignorance or negligence, but every once in a while, someone springs a surprise that baffles even the seen-it-all TSA workers. Something similar happened recently at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).

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The US banned supersonic flight in 1973, partly because of the noise, partly because US plane builders had decided they didn't want to compete with Concorde. However, NASA kept working on the boom problem, developing new understanding of how sonic booms form and propagate, and in turn technologies which might mitigate these.

Last week Boom Supersonic announced they wanted to get the FAA rules modified to be based on sound levels, rather than sound speeds, and now NASA is gearing up to fly their X-59 Quiet supersonic test aircraft.

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