On 2 July 2026, the FAA quietly proposed repealing a rule that's stood for 53 years. The ban on civil supersonic flight over land. The exact regulation that killed Concorde's route map and, with it, its economics. Meanwhile, Qantas has spent the past decade engineering Project Sunrise — non-stop Sydney to London, built entirely on the premise that passengers will trade speed for comfort and no stopover. Two completely different bets on the future of long-haul travel, unfoldi