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A flight from New York to Los Angeles takes six hours. But hypersonic travel could shrink this to 15 minutes. Hypersonic travel will not just reduce flight times in the U.S. It could also shorten ...

Yet the notion of a business jet operating at Mach 5 remained a sci-fi fantasy. That is, until recent advances in design and technology have brought the concept closer to a workable reality. “We’re ...

Woomera, in South Australia, is the world’s largest testing range and was the scene of the successful launch of an experimental rocket called HiFiRE 5B, that attained a speed of Mach 7.5 or 7.5 times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facing threats from China, Taiwan has reportedly developed a new hypersonic missile which can travel at speeds of Mach 6. The new ...

Venus Aerospace just took one giant leap toward hypersonic travel. The Houston-based startup successfully completed the first U.S. flight test of an exotic new type of engine, capable of enabling ...

Hermeus seems dead keen on fast-tracking its way to hypersonic passenger flight. Its uncrewed subsonic Quarterhorse Mark 1 prototype has completed its maiden flight in the skies over Edwards Air Force ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in China have announced that a jumbo jet prototype built by them had managed to reach hypersonic speeds (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 ...

Hermeus is pushing for Mach 5 flight with its Quarterhorse test program. See how this hypersonic tech aims to shrink travel times.

Rotating Detonation Engines (RDE) have been flown by Venus Aerospace. They use continuous detonation waves for propulsion and provide 15% efficiency gains (in specific impulse or fuel consumption) ...