Trump signs new executive orders intended to make flying cars a reality, slash flight times

President Donald Trump signed 3 caller enforcement orders connected Friday aimed astatine accelerating American drone innovation and supersonic aerial travel, portion besides restoring information to American airspace. 

The 3 orders volition beryllium captious to American information and security, White House officials progressive successful the drafting of the orders indicated, peculiarly successful airy of large worldwide events coming to the United States successful the adjacent fewer years, specified arsenic the World Cup and the Olympics. In summation to bolstering information and security, the caller orders volition besides spur greater innovation successful the aerospace and drone sectors, thing White House officials said has been stifled successful caller years arsenic a effect of burdensome regulations.   

"Flying cars are not conscionable for the Jetsons," Michael Kratsios, a pb tech policy advisor astatine the White House said. "Since the opening of his archetypal term, President Trump has recognized the unthinkable imaginable of drones to boost American productivity, make high-skilled jobs and conscionable nationalist needs successful areas similar nationalist safety, infrastructure, inspection, agriculture and more. But for excessively long, reddish portion has hindered homegrown drone innovation, restricting commercialized drone usage and burdening their development."

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A caller flying car from institution AirCar, expected to beryllium released successful aboriginal 2026, volition person a flying scope of 620 miles.    (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

Kratsios said the aforesaid astir supersonic aviation, noting that "Americans should beryllium capable to alert from New York to L.A. successful nether 4 hours."

Besides promoting innovation, the orders besides question to enactment up American airspace sovereignty. This directive is aimed astatine not lone addressing perchance criminal, oregon terror-related threats, but it besides aims to summation penalties for and trim the prevalence of drone misuse successful American airspace. 

"The President week one, wanted america to instrumentality this contented earnestly due to the fact that of the nationalist fury implicit the events implicit New Jersey," Senior Director of Counterterrorism connected Trump administration's National Security Council, Sebastian Gorka, said of the caller enforcement orders signed Friday. "For acold excessively galore years we person not had a requisite, indispensable national effect – not lone to the dominance of non-U.S. platforms successful this field, but besides protecting delicate sites, subject sites, captious infrastructure, but besides conscionable sporting events, wide events." 

U.S. President Donald Trump waves to the assemblage from the tract anterior to Super Bowl LIX betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Caesars Superdome connected February 09, 2025 successful New Orleans, Louisiana. ( Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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White House officials who advised the president connected these caller enforcement orders said determination volition beryllium much extortion for captious infrastructure for sporting venues arsenic a effect of the caller directives, including the upcoming FIFA World Cup. They volition besides alteration "routine beyond ocular enactment of show commercialized operations," specified arsenic drone deliveries, infrastructure attraction and exigency effect to incidents similar wildfires.

The caller enforcement orders purpose to beforehand "routine beyond ocular enactment of show commercialized operations," which includes long-range autonomous delieveries.   (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

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The orders volition besides trim the United States' reliance connected overseas countries for drone and different aviation technology, officials added.

"These enforcement orders volition accelerate American innovation in drones, flying cars and supersonic craft and illustration the aboriginal of America's skies for years to come," Kratsios said. "Our connection is simple. American innovation belongs successful American aerospace."