(Image: Concept image of Lockheed Martin's planned SR-72 hypersonic strike aircraft to serve as a replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird.) It is not yet clear what aircraft DARPA has in mind for the new ...

Hermeus will use Pratt & Whitney's F100 as part of its TBCC propulsion system for the company's Darkhorse hypersonic test aircraft. Atlanta-based hypersonics firm, Hermeus, has just taken delivery of ...

Hypersonic weapons testing cleared a key milestone as the Pentagon confirmed Hermeus Quarterhorse completed an unmanned ...

LOS ANGELES—Atlanta-based hypersonic aircraft developer Hermeus has completed scaled static and high-speed laboratory tests of a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engine prototype up to Mach 5 and ...

Venus Aerospace and Hermeus are the modern day companies that are truly using the small and effective engineering team approaches and methods of the Clarence “Kelly” Johnson led (1943-1975) Lockheed ...

GE Aerospace says it successfully demonstrated an advanced jet propulsion concept that involves a dual-mode ramjet design utilizing rotating detonation combustion. This could offer a pathway to the ...

Private aircraft developer Hermeus has scored a $60 million deal with the United States Air Force (USAF), the company has announced. The funds are earmarked specifically for flighting testing the ...

DARPA recently selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to build a new type of aircraft engine that would allow flight at hypersonic speeds up to Mach 6, according to Aviation Week. Under DARPA's Advanced Full ...