The Week In Technology, Aug. 9-13, 2021

Quarterhorse subscale unmanned flight demonstrator
Quarterhorse will be a subscale unmanned flight demonstrator with a single turbine-based combined-cycle engine.
Credit: Hermeus
Hermeus Hypersonic Demo Funded Hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus is to develop single-engine flight demonstrators for its planned turbine-based combined-cycle Mach 5 transport aircraft under a $60 million U.S. Air Force contract. The contract was awarded by the Air Force’s newly launched Vector...

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