Hermeus seems dead keen on fast-tracking its way to hypersonic passenger flight. Its uncrewed subsonic Quarterhorse Mark 1 ...

The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. Hermeus, a U.S. company aiming to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly ...

THIS is the incredible moment hypersonic jet “Quarterhorse” makes its first flight in a big step towards trips from London to ...

Thick concrete walls and a robust slab of glass separate them from a screaming General Electric J85-15, a turbojet like the one used in the T-38 trainer and other military jets. The cylindrical ...

The company is using Quarterhorse to validate Chimera - which employs the relatively small 5,000-pound thrust General Electric J85 in tandem with a ramjet - to reach Mach 4-plus speeds.

Quarterhorse Mk 2. Powered by a General Electric J85 turbojet engine, the Mk 1 will be used to test high-speed takeoffs and landings in a series of uncrewed, remotely piloted flight tests at ...

The XB-1 is powered by three GE J85-15 engines, a turbojet engine that has been in service for several decades. Boom Supersonic is developing a new engine, a medium-bypass turbofan engine Symphony ...

Interestingly, XB-1 is powered by three GE J85-15 turbojet engines, which have been around for over 20 years. That means XB-1 is far slower than the roughly 741 mph required to achieve Mach 1 ...

Skip forward to Oct 7th, 2024 for flight test five, and Chief Test Pilot Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg set a record for the XB-1 shod with GE J85-15 turbojet engines, taking it up to 17,800 ...

highly aerodynamic and maneuverable jet which was built around two compact and high thrust General Electric J85 engines. The F-5 was designed from the ground up to be an easy to maintain ...

StandardAero won the $237 million multiyear contract to repair the GE J85 engines in May 2020. That placed the company as the sole contractor in charge of long-term maintenance, including any ...