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 ...

Key Points and Summary - The secretive SR-72 "Darkstar" is Lockheed Martin's ambitious project to build a Mach 6+ hypersonic ISR and strike aircraft. -Its success hinges on a revolutionary and highly ...

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GE Aerospace says that it has demonstrated an advanced propulsion concept the blends a dual-mode ramjet together with rotating ...

Less than two years after revealing ambitious plans to develop a 20-passenger hypersonic aircraft by the end of the decade, startup Hermeus has already confounded the skeptics by completing ...

The race to field reusable hypersonic aircraft got a whole lot hotter last month, with GE Aerospace announcing a breakthrough in high-speed jet engine design that could potentially allow conventional ...

Hypersonic developer Hermeus has begun testing a proprietary pre-cooler technology that will allow a standard Pratt & Whitney F100 jet engine to operate at higher speeds and with greater efficiency.

The new Mayhem demonstrator vehicle for a hypersonic, air-breathing propulsion system traces back to budget planning documents that describe a proposal to develop “multi-cycle engines,” the U.S. Air ...

Growing US Department of Defense (DoD) interest in a high-speed, long-range strike aircraft is spurring NASA plans to test a turbine powerplant capable of up to Mach 5. The last high-speed US turbine ...