Quarterhorse: The Air Force’s Mach 5 Monster Plane?
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Image caption: Hermeus, a start-up company building a reusable hypersonic aircraft, signed a $60 million partnership contract with the United States Air Force to further test and develop the company’s Quarterhorse aircraft, powered by a single turbine-based combined cycle engine. Image courtesy of Hermeus. Article by
Meet Quarterhorse: For many decades, the U.S. achieved air superiority over its adversaries. Beginning with the F-22 Raptor’s first flight, American-made planes had set the threshold for fifth-generation airframe capabilities. Now that Beijing and Moscow have caught up to America’s former monopoly of aerial technologies, U.S. engineers are looking toward the next generation of possibilities. While the SR-71 Blackbird continues to wow the most avid aviation buffs, the Air Force’s upcoming “Quarterhorse” airframe may soon take the title as the fastest hypersonic plane in the skies. […]
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