Hypersonic

Historic Stratolaunch aircraft performs taxi tests for the first time in eight months.

Engineers have unveiled a full-scale concept mockup of a hypersonic jet, which could be developed in the future to serve as Air Force One. The airplane—dubbed Quarterhorse—is being developed by Atlanta-based startup Hermeus, which revealed the mockup Thursday during an exclusive event at an undisclosed location attended by company executives, investors, and the U.S. Air […]

Defense officials have awarded 18 university-led research projects $25.5 million in contracts aimed at boosting hypersonic technology development, the Department of Defense announced this week. The contracts, which are set to be distributed over three years, were awarded by DOD through the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH) to research teams that also include 15 […]

Purdue University has been involved in aviation education since the mid-1930s. Recent announcements suggest that this program with such a long history is about to make some more historic strides. With steps under way for a hypersonic test facility and a soon-to-be-installed hypersonic tunnel, Purdue has raised interest from an already deep-pocketed partner—Rolls-Royce—that plans to […]

An Atlanta-based startup, Hermeus Corporation says it’s building a hypersonic jet that will travel at four times the speed of sound. If Hermeus is successful, that could reduce TransAtlantic travel times between New York and Paris from 7 ½ hours to just 90 minutes. That’s about twice the speed of the supersonic Concorde. The new […]