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The New Supersonic Boom

Cars That Think

Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. The main obstacles will be regulatory and, especially, environmental: Supersonic airliners could be hugely more polluting than their subsonic counterparts. Everett Collection/Alamy.

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Summer Update

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NGO's The campaign initially began by focusing on the 50 largest cities in the U.S., A large coalition has formed around the issues of national security, combating climate change, saving on fuel costs and increasing business for American agriculture. but it has grown far beyond this point.