WORLD'S FASTEST PLANE (TO BE) HERMEUS QUARTERHORSE! CHIMERA ENGINE .

HERMEUS QUARTERHORSE PROPELLED BY THE CHIMERA ENGINE WHICH IS TOTALY DESIGNED AND TO BE MANUFACTURED IN-HOUSE. 

Hermeus is a Atlanta, America based start-up founded in 2018 with the vision 'To radically accelerate Air Travel'. They are developing Mach 5 aircraft for commercial use as well as they have also partnered with government organisations to develop a series of autonomous aircrafts to tackle urgent national security issues. The GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS which include are U.S AIR FORCE, NASA. 

The company has claimed that the aircraft coming to the commercial market will travel twice the speed that of the CONCORDE, i.e Mach 5.

''At Mach 5, more than twice the speed of the supersonic Concorde, passengers will be able to cross the Atlantic in 90 minutes.''

Credits- HERMEUS

THE QUARTERHORSE ~

Quarterhorse is a remotely piloted hypersonic aircraft.

Like its namesake, the American Quarter Horse, it excels in sprinting short distances.

Quarterhorse will validate our proprietary turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engine, and is the first in a line of high-speed aircraft.

SPECIFICATIONS ~

Cruising Altitude - 95000ft

Top speed - Mach 5+

Range - 4600 Miles

Materials - Titanium Alloy Primary Structure

Engine - Chimera Engine (designed and built by Hermeus in-house)

First Flight - 2023

Type - Unmanned