The Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter is a small, highly aerodynamic and maneuverable jet which was built around two compact and ...

The Trump administration opened the floodgates to supersonic air travel by asking the FAA to rewrite the 1970s flight ban ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...