On Monday, the Atlanta-based aerospace company Hermeus confirmed a key flight milestone after its ...
Somewhere over the California desert, a small white aircraft punched through the sound barrier twice, and nobody on the ...
Hermeus pushed its Quarterhorse jet past Mach 1. See how this unmanned test flight is accelerating the future of high-speed ...
NASA’s X-59 aircraft has finally flown faster than the speed of sound, bringing us one step closer to supersonic flight ...
After months of test flights, NASA’s X-59 aircraft is gearing up for its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier ...
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NASA's X-59 QueSST Goes Supersonic

NASA's X-59 QueSST flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, expanding into the supersonic portion of its ...
Venture-backed defense aviation company Hermeus announced its Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 successfully completed its first supersonic flight, reaching a top speed of Mach 1.21. The flight was executed on just ...
Put simply, conventional supersonic engines are jet engines that are capable of reconfiguring themselves to operate at air speeds beyond Mach 1. That means shifting the flow of air and moving ...
NASA is testing the X-59, an experimental plane that was designed to exceed the speed of sound without a loud sonic boom.