The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the ...

First step toward hypersonic aviation: high-speed prototype takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California ...

The subsonic test vehicle is the first flight-capable aircraft in the Quarterhorse line, with which Hermeus eventually hopes ...

Hermeus has completed the first flight of its Quarterhorse Mk 1—an uncrewed test aircraft representing a critical stepping ...

High-speed aircraft developer Hermeus has successfully flown its remotely piloted Quarterhorse Mk. 1 demonstrator at Edwards AFB, California, marking a key step toward the follow-on development of ...

Quarterhorse Mk 1 is a remotely piloted aircraft powered by a General Electric J85 engine (the same used by the F-5 and T-38) which will demonstrate high-speed takeoff and landing, a key enabling ...

That's not surprising, because, while it can fly and has the profile of a hypersonic glide vehicle, it's powered by a lightweight GE J85 jet engine that can generate a mere 3,500 lb of thrust.

The testbed will carry the company’s Chimera turbine-based combined cycle engine, which is built on General Electric’s J85 turbojet system ... to its work on a second vehicle called Dark Horse. “We’re ...