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

The aircraft called Aurora is expected to reach a top speed of 4,321 kmph in the future and will cross the Karman Line, a boundary that marks the beginning of space.

Hermeus flew Quarterhorse Mk 1 after just one year of development, proving remote ops and accelerating hypersonic aircraft ...

The SR-72 “Darkstar” is designed as a successor to the iconic SR-71 Blackbird. According to the designers at Lockheed Martin, ...

Blackbird number 972, which set four international speed records ... feelings of Air Force test pilot Terry Pappas, who says that of all the planes he flew, the SR-71 “is at the pinnacle.

But only one, the legendary Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, holds the speed record with humans on ... and what better way to do that than to develop test vehicles with help from the military?

On December 22, 1964, test pilot Bob Gilliland took the ... standing silently in a museum gallery, the Lockheed SR-71 ...

One of its top advantages over the U-2 was its incredible speed ... became the SR-71 had its maiden flight on December 22, 1964 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Test pilot Robert ...

“That’s because today,” the article explained, “engineers are developing a hypersonic aircraft that will go twice the speed of the SR-71.” “It’s called the ... previously suggested may see initial ...

The hardware glitches behind them, Yeilding and Major Joe Vida, the SR-71’s reconnaissance systems officer, set not one but four world speed records ... many years as a test-flight vehicle.

Test pilots are integral to the development of new military ... In 1990, while en route to the Smithsonian Institution, an SR-71 set the following four speed records: Los Angeles, California, to ...