{"id":830009,"date":"2026-08-29T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:58:13","slug":"as-nfl-intends-to-go-global-new-supersonic-engine-is-weeks-away-from-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/830009\/","title":{"rendered":"As NFL intends to go global, new supersonic engine is “weeks away” from testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Concorde concept is making a comeback, which would make it easier for the NFL to continue its effort at global conquest.<\/p>\n

The successor to the mothballed supersonic jet is reportedly \u201cweeks away<\/a>\u201d from engine testing. Boom Supersonic\u2019s Overture would cut the travel time from New York to London to 3.5 hours. Currently, the trip requires roughly eight hours.<\/p>\n

The NFL is monitoring<\/a> the potential return of flight at velocities faster than the speed of sound. It would make it easier to take teams across oceans for international games.<\/p>\n

The Overture may only be the beginning. Another project, known as Invictus, could result in a plane that flies at 3,800 miles per hour<\/a> \u2014 and that could cut the time for a London-to-Sydney trip to three hours.<\/p>\n

If that ever becomes a mainstream option, the NFL could put teams anywhere it chooses. And the Commissioner has said teams will inevitably be located<\/a> in other countries.<\/p>\n

Obviously, international franchises would present other logistical issues. Tax rates, exchange rates, governmental differences, cultural differences are just some of them. <\/p>\n

The bigger problem could be the reluctance of players to live in other countries. Non-American teams also would complicate the process of churning rosters through in-season tryouts and signings and other moves that would have a player on an American roster one day, and on an international roster the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Concorde concept is making a comeback, which would make it easier for the NFL to continue its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-830009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}