The Absolute Fastest Aircraft on Earth?

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Publicado 2024-05-03

In the bustling Atlanta, Georgia, facility of the pioneering aerospace startup Hermeus Corporation, a crack team of scientists and engineers armed with a vast array of high-performance power tools make all-important tweaks to their revolutionary new aircraft, the Quarterhorse. Having already developed the turbine-based combined cycle Chimera engine, a machine as innovative as it is powerful, Hermeus is now busy creating the perfect vehicle to put its abilities to the test.

A sleek, sophisticated jet of the future, the Quarterhorse is being built with one clear objective: speed. As the prototypes zoom through the clouds at hypersonic velocities, pushing the limits of aviation technology, the Quarterhorse keeps its eye on the grand prize: the airspeed record set by the Blackbird SR-71 in 1976. Nearly 50 years later, the Blackbird remains number one, with no aircraft able to better its impressive feat. Yet, as the Quarterhorse project steams ahead, it seems there may finally be a challenger for the Blackbird’s crown.

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@OrginalDravas hace 9 días

Quarter Horse breaks the SR71 record and the air force pulls a SR71 out of mothballs and its allowed to go its full speed
@rmorgan4358 hace 14 días

Kelly Johnson was th GOAT !! It is taking over 50+ years to break his records, says something!! Bring back real men!!
@williamrogge6268 ayer

Without a pilot, the existing record cannot be broken.
@edsongrindeland4597 hace 14 días

Was this made on April 1?
@thelittlesignpost hace 9 días

Soon, we will be able to travel at the speed of light, but until then, keep us posted on the progress of this project team and their innovations!
@richwalter3107 hace 8 días

Are we forgetting the X15 and the records it set??
@hobbyfarmer62 hace 14 días

First will believe it beats the SR71 when I see it, and only once it attains that speed in a full size manned version will I think it has beaten it not before. The speed of an unmanned machine doesn't face the same limitations as a manned craft so not the same thing.
@2131560 hace 14 días

this new aircraft shouldn't even have the opportunity for the attempt to break the record on the count that its unmanned
@g3mck120 hace 14 días

Carefully avoiding mentioning the X-51A Waverider that sustained Mach 5.1 (3,400 mph) in 2013. Wouldn't look good to investors to know that the supposedly "impossible record" was broken more than ten years ago. Not to mention all those Russian "hypersonic cruise missiles" that are being used routinely in the war in Ukraine.
@auro1986 hace 14 días

so they are making a missile with jet engine?
@justaperson8560 hace 14 días

If it’s not a manned aircraft then the record can’t be broken
@makschorney2514 hace 14 días

I hate to be the one to say it, but it is a story i have heard before, many times in my 65 years...
@jonl6547 hace 9 horas

The problem it fixes is technology stagnation if we don’t do it somebody else will we need to always advance and keep technology moving which benefits everyone in 1 form or another
@robertbe2520 hace 14 días

Loved this one! I’ve never heard of this project.
@connorschlick9838 hace 14 días

I would love to work with the Hermeus team on this one. Truly pushing the bounds of aviation
@tigertiger1699 hace 5 días

Great vids🙏🙏🙏
@andrewfranson4756 hace 2 días

So if the Darkhorse is going to break the SR71's record, where's the pilot going to sit?
@clarencehopkins7832 hace 14 días

Excellent stuff bro
@CATGIRLasmrKING hace 12 días

I remember the Good Old Days: Men and Black and Shadow Children 😢
@larshowen3319 hace 23 horas

They need to angle that puppie down and go for the land speed record at the Bonneville salt flats.