The Absolute Fastest Aircraft on Earth?

[@rmorgan4358]

Kelly Johnson was th GOAT !! It is taking over 50+ years to break his records, says something!! Bring back real men!!

[@OrginalDravas]

Quarter Horse breaks the SR71 record and the air force pulls a SR71 out of mothballs and its allowed to go its full speed

[@Anarchy_420]

Lol SR-72 already broke it ;)

[@williamrogge6268]

Without a pilot, the existing record cannot be broken.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

why not no black out limit

[@williamrogge6268]

@@jamesmusisca7547 Well without a pilot the manned plane is racing a rocket, and rockets have their own speed records.

[@cpt.fignuts]

@@jamesmusisca7547 Because this thing cant beat Mach 35. this thing is pointless. satellites can take pics better than planes and in ariel combat, speed isnt a factor anymore

[@KRYTEN451]

I hope there's a kit version in the works..

[@hobbyfarmer62]

First will believe it beats the SR71 when I see it, and only once it attains that speed in a full size manned version will I think it has beaten it not before. The speed of an unmanned machine doesn't face the same limitations as a manned craft so not the same thing.

[@geno8150]

Well they’ve received military funding so they must be on to something

[@jhill4874]

@@geno8150 I suspect once the succeed the AF will slap a classification on it.

[@trumanstanley8040]

Agreed!

[@tjm3900]

So why have a man in it ?

[@-108-]

We're talking about airplanes here, not aircraft; Specifically airplanes only. Rocket powered aircraft are the only type of aircraft that could accellerate fast enough to be dangerous to humans due to high G load.

[@richwalter3107]

Are we forgetting the X15 and the records it set??

[@ourgreathighpriest1601]

I guess the difference being the X-15 didn’t take off from the ground but was dropped from a plane.

[@-108-]

The X-15 was not considered an airplane, but rather a rocket plane or a space plane, and so doesn't apply to the record in question.

[@ekspatriat]

@@-108- Air and Craft fit the X-15 exactly. Pedancy getting in the way.

[@FactNinja]

Think they’re classified differently. My question is… where’s the pilot?? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@-108-]

@@ekspatriat You'll have to argue with the air force about that one.

[@edsongrindeland4597]

Was this made on April 1?

[@phil6506]

it's a scam

[@2131560]

this new aircraft shouldn't even have the opportunity for the attempt to break the record on the count that its unmanned

[@Anubis78250]

It doesn't. The SR-71's record is in a different category. There have already been faster speeds set by rocket powered manned aircraft, and unmanned aircraft. Key features of the SR-71's record are "jet propulsion" - "manned" - and "aircraft". That record is only broken if something meeting the same classification does so. This would only meet two of those, meaning no matter how fast it goes it will never break that record.

[@-108-]

"on account of" is the correct terminology: "...on account of it being unmanned." Just fyi.

[@justaperson8560]

If it’s not a manned aircraft then the record can’t be broken

[@massmike11]

Sure it can, just depends on what record

[@g3mck120]

Carefully avoiding mentioning the X-51A Waverider that sustained Mach 5.1 (3,400 mph) in 2013. Wouldn't look good to investors to know that the supposedly "impossible record" was broken more than ten years ago. Not to mention all those Russian "hypersonic cruise missiles" that are being used routinely in the war in Ukraine.

[@-108-]

There is no such thing as a hypersonic cruise missile. CMs are low speed, low altitude, turbine jet powered land attack missiles (launched & boosted with rockets). That being said, RU's hypersonics are nowhere near unique. Hypersonic (>mach 5) missiles have been around since America's WAC Corporal in 1949 , and Russia's are nothing special. In fact, they are far less capable than any of their US made counterparts. Pretty much every air to air missile is hypersonic, and have been for decades.

[@larshowen3319]

They need to angle that puppie down and go for the land speed record at the Bonneville salt flats.

[@shenmisheshou7002]

This will not be commercially viable unless it can carry over 250 passengers, which is highly unlikely. The problem is found in two words: Gates, and Slots. If you can only carry 100 passengers, it will take take you four trips to carry the same number of one Airbus A350. What that means is that you will need for landing slots and four gate visits. The A350 needs one landing slot and one gate. Also, the hub and spoke model means that if you only being in 100 passengers, your slower planes can't be filled to the same capacity and make your arrival/departure window for the connecting flights. As an executive jet, a hypersonic might have some appear, but the commercial airliners can't really get enough use out of this kind of plane to want to buy it. It is gates and slots that will keep this plane from being successful in the commercial market unless they can get at least 200 seats and baggage, and that would be quite an engineering feat. The Lear Jet could go faster than the Cessna Citation, but even though the Citation was slower, it could land at far more airports and carry more people. When the Citation came out, critics said it just was not fast enough to compete with Lear, but in two years, Lear sales plummeted, and the Citation line became the most successful business jet line in history. Speed is not everything.

[@auro1986]

so they are making a missile with jet engine?

[@chuckz2934]

Mock-ups, aspirations, wind tunnels, bla bla bla. I’ll care when it actually flies and lives up to the hype

[@makschorney2514]

I hate to be the one to say it, but it is a story i have heard before, many times in my 65 years...

[@johnhopkins6260]

Hence, "game-changer" cliche. (still waiting for a self-cleaning cat litter box... that works)

[@Porter92]

Well old man its here and so far is receiving funding from those who fund “real” shit so im sold when i see the list

[@tunneloflight]

Ditto here. Those records fell long ago. Yet another way to siphon money. With catastrophic climate change well under way, and a massive pandemic still spreading (and the powers that be studiously working to pretend it doesn't exist), and another (H5N1) waiting in the wings, the last thing we need is an energy and resource wasting way for billionaires to jet around the world faster.

[@markchapman2585]

Not everyone is old.

[@trespire]

@@Porter92 Well young duckling, even worked with inconel or titanium ? Because that what it takes to exceed mach-3. US lobbying to ban supersonic travle didn't help buisness either.

[@Naudia93]

Love this Investor Presentation, the cucumber water is a nice touch 😂

[@connorschlick9838]

I would love to work with the Hermeus team on this one. Truly pushing the bounds of aviation

[@tigertiger1699]

Great vids🙏🙏🙏

[@jonl6547]

The problem it fixes is technology stagnation if we don’t do it somebody else will we need to always advance and keep technology moving which benefits everyone in 1 form or another

[@Walter-wo5sz]

I've seen contrails of aircraft flying so high there wasn't a sonic boom streak across the sky at what must be hypersonic speeds. People just don't look up.

[@Retiredkiwi]

Has a way to stop sonic booms been found, or will they still only be allowed to go thru the speed of sound, when out at sea. If so you can likely add a lot of extra time to the trip.

[@-108-]

They're gonna have to up their game to scramjet technoloty if they expect to travel at speeds of M5 to M8

[@blameyourself4489]

The absolute fastest aircraft on earth has still not flown.

[@andrewfranson4756]

So if the Darkhorse is going to break the SR71's record, where's the pilot going to sit?

[@jonnywatts2970]

Wonder how they're planning on getting past the sonic boom issue.

[@robertheinkel6225]

New improved wing designs eliminates the sonic boom. There is already onevdesign out there doing that.

[@jonnywatts2970]

@@robertheinkel6225 nice

[@phillipzx3754]

And it carries how many pilots?

[@robertzendejas8349]

If they can get the engine to work reliably, this system will be the next standard right alongside rotating detonating rocket engines.

[@robertbe2520]

Loved this one! I’ve never heard of this project.

[@Anarchy_420]

Please🙏 create a Vid about The Cypher Drone!👍

[@markdi2]

They should start working on Project Pluto again

[@mauricio-wq5lu]

Seems to be a follow up of the drone once carried by the Blackbird.

[@trespire]

D-21

[@mauricio-wq5lu]

@@trespire Thanks!

[@iggzistentialism8458]

No mention of the Concorde, the airliner that did mach 2.04 casually, beginning back in 69

[@magpie7791]

Am I wrong it's not making a plane go hypersonic, but more how to make an airframe survive the high air pressure and Temps. The main problems are stopping the leading edges from melting and getting air into the engine. Well air at hypersonic speeds becomes a plasma and a plasma can be deflected with electo-magnetics?? Just a thought!

[@Neeboopsh]

part of the problem of getting to hypersonic is that a turbofan wont get you there, but a ramjet can get up there, but wont run at subsonic, so you need to be able to transition from one mode to the other. the sr71's ducting design allowed mach3 but much over that you get into a static type engine, like a ramjet or scramjet. all the material science stuff and plasma stuff is icing on the cake ;) but getting to hypersonic from a rolling start on the ground, and back into a landing mean you need turbofan engines. missiles can get launched at speed, and just use a ramjet/scramjet, or you can get up to speed via a rocket motor. but a plane is gonna need a hybrid engine or multiple engine types to push past mach4 and need scramjets beyond even higher.

[@clarencehopkins7832]

Excellent stuff bro

[@michaelkaliski7651]

A 90 minute trans Atlantic crossing only makes sense if the airport transit time is under 15 minutes boarding and alighting from the aircraft. Given the current two hour wait to book in and board for a typical flight, there is a lot more that needs to change than just high speed flight.

[@GaryPierron-ym7xm]

On Earth maybe, but what's the fastest aircraft in the sky?

[@Jim-fe2xz]

Did I miss the part about dealing with sonic booms?

[@jeffrenman4146]

You didn't miss it… They simply don't care and why should they. This is just another achine working It's way to the art of killing us… I think I've seen too many documentaries on military everything today there's just too much and it's all to kill us not very healthy it will suck the soul out of you eventually I think that's where I'm at

[@HotZone97]

If I remember history correctly …wasn’t the X-15 the fastest manned aircraft @ mach 6.72 ?

[@wally7856]

Wasn't air breathing so in a different category.

[@Ed-ty1kr]

If it's unmanned it is nothing more than a jet powered hypersonic missile, lacking an explosive payload... and we already have plenty of missiles that fly at well over mach 3. NASA's X43 A scramjet drone is 6.7 mach. And the X15 was way faster than the SR71 or the A12 Oxcart, which was faster of the two similar aircraft, due to having only a single cockpit and single pilot, single ejection seat, ect. But enjoyed the video anyway.

[@WilliamCollins-sh6lm]

Hold the phone !!! How many times have we all heard about "New and Improved" this or that ??? Record Breaking is in the "Proof" !!! Let's pretend I'm from Missouri "Show Me" !!!

[@robertwieland5958]

I am from Missouri. SHOW ME!

[@MrSpikebender]

Square nozzle that would be cool. Forget the name of that type.

[@micstonemic696stone]

You are using the same engine j58 with Limited bypass ram air s4 lp You need to have complete bypass of the rotor system introducing heat at the reheat rings allowing the rotor to come to a stop 2/3 of a turbojet energy is used in turning itself Still use a turbojet with blocker doors for complete bypass Mikey knows 😊

[@bendershome4discountorphan859]

I wish them luck although we more then likly have something in a hanger somewhere that has already blown that record apart

[@VNV67]

I doubt the public will ever see this one to fly in.

[@jaywalker3087]

It's a Drone !!!

[@thelittlesignpost]

Soon, we will be able to travel at the speed of light, but until then, keep us posted on the progress of this project team and their innovations!

[@randomthoughts9463]

Ya, right. Speed of light only applies to light PARTICLES. We, and any vessle - are made of mass, so...Not soon.

[@claudebylion9932]

If we travel at the speed of light then we won’t be able to film it or see where we are going.

[@thelittlesignpost]

@@claudebylion9932 That's for sure, but this was a tongue on cheek reply!

[@KUBZREICHASMR]

I remember the Good Old Days: Men and Black and Shadow Children 😢

[@toddbellows5282]

That will be cutting edge technology for a long long time.

[@craigkdillon]

Sure. It's fast. Still not as good as the Transporter Beam on Star Trek. When they perfect that, they will get my attention.

[@Redspeciality]

Thats never going to happen. I read a physicists paper exploring how much energy it would take to “beam” somebody somewhere. Answer, the amount of energy the sun puts out in 5 seconds. Good luck with that happening.

[@marcelgaud]

Oh yeah, I've heard of this and they start out using our F-5's GEJ85-15, I believe?

[@DavidHanniganJr]

GA Represent!!!

[@MrKirby2367]

Warhead?

[@olsonspeed]

We had SST airliners, they couldn't compete with lower ticket prices of Junbo jets. Passengers have more time than money and will continue to choose lower prices and longer subsonic flight times.

[@gort8203]

But will it go to plaid?

[@clearcreek69]

they must've overshot us by a week & a half

[@cat22_a1]

very interesting, BUT they will have the same problem everyone else has - noise! specifically the supersonic shock wave. but for military uses this looks real promising and doesn't appear to be just hype

[@randomthoughts9463]

Meah. I was promised a personal space jet from the Jetsons 30 years ago. If you can't beat a 1960 aircraft, never mind the land speed record in 1997 - we are still in infancy in thinking. Not that I can, but really?

[@jeffreymckie3328]

X15 was much faster than sr71.

[@willymac5036]

The X15 used a rocket engine, not an air breathing engine. The difference is that a rocket engine provides its own oxidizer (which is why they work in space), jet engines use the oxygen in the surrounding air as its oxidizer.

[@merlinbrother1177]

The X15 was air launched by B52, SR 71 and its cousin's were capable of taking off like regular planes. Furthermore X15 was a research craft, SR71 was used in military service.

[@AllTradesGeorge]

On top of all of those factors, the X15 wasn't a production aircraft. It was a technology demonstrator/research vehicle. The Quarterhorse is also a demonstrator, but it's not really the one that will be the record-breaker...it's just proving or disproving the viability of their engine technology under actual flight conditions. When they've learned enough from the Quarterhorse program, they'll move into an actual production program...that's when the record would be considered broken, when a manned production jet-powered craft makes an unassisted launch, breaks the record, and then lands. Everything up to that point is just a step towards an attempt at the record.

[@michaelgautreaux3168]

It required a mother ship. It falls out of the Ground Air Ground flight envelope. It was more of a missile than this thing. Can U say "A way to misappropriate Tax $$$"? I can.

[@Paul_C]

When someone tells the car was a game changer to follow-up on something is terribly wrong with the ambition of that person. It is destroying cities.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

pilot flown attack drones can be recalled or dumped if attack is called off

[@wormthatturned8737]

And it’s still not even left the ground!

[@DavidHanniganJr]

Analytics!

[@Charles-k9g5y]

The Americans were afraid of the Aero.

[@Mike-xt2ot]

Maybe it's the fastest D.E.I. unmanned Amazon delivery vehicle?? Seems just as likely as any other part of this Disney / Netflix vehicle.

[@GameplayTubeYT]

Insane!!!

[@gsc512]

And the saucer is hitting in excess of 15,000 mph and the SR-71 even with this record number is only 1,900 mph. It's like an eighth of the speed While suffering none of the heat problems and using super cavitation so you don't have anybody even knowing you're in the airspace cuz you're running silent And when I say silent I mean hearing wise but also silent because any radar is going to get destroyed by the super cavitation cloud. You're just not going to get any feedback to your station so she's still silent

[@clij5202]

No way hypersonic passenger planes will be economical; hypersonic only over ocean

[@khurshidchaudhry2227]

It's a weapon as it will be faster than any anti aircrafts system currently available.

[@davidhughes4089]

You don't need to be as fast as it, you just need to be able to predict it's flight path and get a missile in the right place at the right time

[@kameronjones7139]

​@@davidhughes4089 good luck considering it is constantly underpower at very high altitude while being able to maneuver at any moment

[@bobjoatmon1993]

Well, it's not faster than light. Lasers, which stalled for 25 years have made some huge strides in the last 3 years. No the whole craft isn't going to vaporize, even a small hole punched through the skin is thought to lead to RUD.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

with no pilot it can go as fast as the engine and air frame can take it

[@thebritishengineer8027]

Errrrrr NO!! The record has already been broken at least twice by something built by BAE along the line of the Taranis Drone, it is said hitting Mach5+ (first flown in 2013). And the Sabre Engine built by Reaction who already tested by Darpa in jet mode on air, to Mach 5.3+ between 2019 - 2021. It's Mach 25 capability in space has not been tested yet. Left behind again boys.... I would remind you the the first Commerical Computer was the Ferranti Mk1 in 1951 built in Manchester, England. Where both the Teranis and Sabre came from oh and the first modern submarine and torpedo as it happens.

[@hobbyfarmer62]

P.S. was this ment as an infomercial targeting congress for funding?

[@averystablegenius]

This is at best an uneconomic unmanned drone weapon that no one asked for, pure and simple, that fails to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the first place, so there are no records to be broken, except the record for grifting investor and/or tax payer dollars.

[@paktahn]

exactly only the ultra rich will be able to fly in the commercial version

[@kameronjones7139]

There absolutely is a need for reusable hypersonic aircraft

[@averystablegenius]

@@kameronjones7139 Oh? Such as, Kameron?

[@averystablegenius]

@@paktahn As long as the rich are content with no amenities such as toilets and food in flight, and being able only to land at military airports, the only runways long enough for it to land.

[@kameronjones7139]

@@averystablegenius same mission as the Sr 71 with even a potential strike option

[@Acc0rd79]

50 years later and people still can't match the speed.... that tells me they have technology 50 to 100 years ahead of what we currently see in some deep black project no one will ever know about for a hundred years. Just like space travel, we gave up in the 70s and haven't done crap since..... or have we??

[@keything8487]

put a man in it !! i would re-commission the SR71, and have a race !!!

[@marcelgaud]

Then it goes up to HYPER SPEED.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

unmanned

[@rosslevinson3302]

Wish that commentator would go somewhere else! His breathless commentary is totally annoying!!

[@Dirtyharry70585]

Think SkunkWorks got them beat.

[@Cybo-Man]

Sorry to break it to you but the military has already broken Mach 5 but is classified. Don’t ask me how I know.

[@nunyabusiness4651]

We destroyed record after record for 60yrs, sometimes almost uping the speed day over day, then we just stopped! Yeah right, they just stop telling us about it!

[@josephricci7391]

they need to add a pilot to break the record don't they?

[@JohnSmith-jl3fm]

Ban concorde then reinvent concorde 😂

[@Lucky14970]

Um… Call me crazy, but it seems a bit dangerous. Ever heard of turbulence? Tell me if I make no sense, but what about random debris from meteorites and stuff. Just imagine the thrust and feeling when that ramjet kicks in?!

[@HahaHaha-gq8ft]

Watch lockheed break the record again 😂

[@jamesdouglas8760]

Based on all other high performance aircraft the flight, speed etc. is based on a flat earth model. True.

[@anml1969]

Yet another video about Hermeus and its Quarterhorse that says virtually nothing substantive about the vehicle or the engine but plenty about financing.

[@thebarkingmouse]

The claim about hypersonic civilian travel is ridiculous. Wasteful & stupid. For weapons it is another story.

[@michaelhorner6804]

Project magic printer

[@uranusimploding9830]

I.E. ..... A cruise missile

[@sr4087]

LOL total revisionist history, I have been told my entire life blackbird went over 5,000 mph

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

utterly pointless

[@terrypold]

Unmanned doesn't count.

[@ericdawson3425]

Did it really break the record and did man really walk on the moon makes me wonder my farther aways said don’t believe anything you hear

[@nramember.2nd]

Click Bait!

[@phil6506]

sounds like a scam to me.

[@jamesmusisca7547]

nuclear attack drones flown by pilots on the ground rocket assist attack super sonic kamakazi

[@alexaltrichter1597]

Let Elon Musk give it a go.

[@oml81mm]

A-12 was faster!

[@FrancisDrake-q3j]

Looks like a great project to waste investor money on, and maybe build yourself a nice little house.

[@moofins760]

First Ig

[@lunam7249]

5:17 it look about 3.1 mph with men pulling it!!!!😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️💩💩remember its all fun and games until you lose your money!!!