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Leading The World in Supersonic Flight
Purpose: The United States stands at the threshold of a bold new chapter in aerospace innovation. For more than 50 years, outdated and overly restrictive regulations have grounded the promise of supersonic flight over land, stifling American ingenuity, weakening our global competitiveness, and ceding leadership to foreign adversaries.
Advances in aerospace engineering, materials science, and noise reduction now make supersonic flight not just possible, but safe, sustainable, and commercially viable. This order begins a historic national effort to reestablish the United States as the undisputed leader in high-speed aviation.
By updating obsolete standards and embracing the technologies of today and tomorrow, we will empower our engineers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to deliver the next generation of air travel, which will be faster, quieter, safer, and more efficient than ever before.
Restoring American Airspace Sovereignty
Purpose: Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), otherwise known as drones, offer the potential to enhance public safety as well as cement America’s leadership in global innovation. But criminals, terrorists, and hostile foreign actors have intensified their weaponization of these technologies, creating new and serious threats to our homeland.
- Drug cartels use UAS to smuggle fentanyl across our borders, deliver contraband into prisons, surveil law enforcement, and otherwise endanger the public.
- Mass gatherings are vulnerable to disruptions and threats by unauthorized UAS flights.
- Critical infrastructure, including military bases, is subject to frequent — and often unidentified — UAS incursions.
Immediate action is needed to ensure American sovereignty over its skies and that its airspace remains safe and secure.
Unleashing American Drone Dominance
Purpose: Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), otherwise known as drones, enhance United States productivity, create high-skilled jobs, and are reshaping the future of aviation. Drones are already transforming industries from logistics and infrastructure inspection to precision agriculture, emergency response, and public safety.
Emerging technologies such as electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft promise to modernize methods for cargo delivery, passenger transport, and other advanced air mobility capabilities.
The United States must accelerate the safe commercialization of drone technologies, and fully integrate UAS into the National Airspace System. The time has come to accelerate testing and to enable routine drone operations, scale up domestic production, and expand the export of trusted, American-manufactured drone technologies to global markets.
Building a strong and secure domestic drone sector is vital to reducing reliance on foreign sources, strengthening critical supply chains, and ensuring that the benefits of this technology are delivered to the American people.
Bonus
These executive orders are aimed at advancing drone innovation and supersonic air travel, which includes support for flying cars. White House official, Michael Kratsios, stated, “Flying cars are not just for the Jetsons, they’re also for the American people.” The orders were designed to remove regulatory barriers to developing flying cars for use as air taxis or cargo delivery.
In a November 2024 campaign event, Trump expressed his desire for the U.S. to lead in developing flying cars, saying, “I want to ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility.”
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In a March 2023 campaign video, Trump proposed investing in vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) as part of a broader plan for “Freedom Cities” built on federal land. He described these cities as part of a “nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of America’s future,” which would include flying cars.
“These freedom cities will reopen the American frontier, re-ignite American imagination and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people — all hard-working families — a new shot at homeownership and in fact, the American dream.”
~ President Donald J Trump
Do these Executive Orders signal our acceleration into the innovation that shifts life for all of us towards a great deal more ease and grace? And Fun? I’d like to think so.
