No shock diamonds? Didn't look too tied down either.
Quote from: webdan on 11/11/2021 09:18 pmNo shock diamonds? Didn't look too tied down either.I'm skeptical about the "prototype" claim as well, but to be honest, there are two heavy chains running to large concrete blocks behind the item.
Money...
I noticed a lot of Brass watching that unveiling.Clearly a major source of future funding and/or customers are the military.
You'd be surprised how many tubes we have to bend. Like, so many tubes. Luckily, our new tube bending machine is up and running, and the team is pretty stoked.
https://twitter.com/hermeuscorp/status/1576989113084960768QuoteYou'd be surprised how many tubes we have to bend. Like, so many tubes. Luckily, our new tube bending machine is up and running, and the team is pretty stoked.
“The Notre Dame facility allowed us to create conditions similar to what we’ll see in flight,” said CTO Glenn Case. “Completing this testing on the ground significantly de-risks our Quarterhorse flight test campaign which will begin late next year.”
Quote from: su27k on 11/21/2022 02:37 am“The Notre Dame facility allowed us to create conditions similar to what we’ll see in flight,” said CTO Glenn Case. “Completing this testing on the ground significantly de-risks our Quarterhorse flight test campaign which will begin late next year.”Well if they've actually got their engines sorted like they say, perhaps they'd be better off ditching Quarterhorse (what a stupid name for a fast aircraft) entirely and asking Lockheed-Martin if they can borrow one particular prototype they recently showcased?Seeing Darkstar actually fly would be very, very, cool indeed!!!
A movie prop is not going to be of much utility.
Quote from: edzieba on 11/21/2022 08:26 amA movie prop is not going to be of much utility.As a validated design concept / showpiece made by people who know what is required for hypersonic flight?? That movie prop is far more likely to fly than the mess that they trundled out at their big reveal.
Atlanta-based hypersonics firm, Hermeus, has just taken delivery of an F100-229 engine from Pratt & Whitney. Best known for powering USAF F-15 Eagles and F-16s, the F100 will propel Heremeus’ hypersonic Darkhorse aircraft to Mach 2.8 on the way to Mach 5.Hermeus announced receipt of its first Pratt & Whitney engine early this month. “We always knew that we were going to larger and more modern gas turbine engines with better thrust than the J85,” company CEO, AJ Piplica, told me.The need for a more powerful conventional powerplant for Hermeus’ turbine-based combined cycle engine (TBCC) falls into line with the company’s march from a small, remotely-piloted Quarterhorse test aircraft to a larger reusable hypersonic UAS called Darkhorse and, at some point in the future, to a 20 passenger hypersonic aircraft called Halcyon.
Got to witness a test of a turbo ram jet engine yesterday with @hermeuscorp. Absolutely wild experience. My favourite doc shoot so far. My dream company to work for.
Considering that the Chimera turbine-based combined cycle engine of the Hermeus Quarterhorse includes a vintage General Electric J85 turbojet, the decision by Hermeus to select the Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan as the turbine portion of the Chimera II powerplant for the forthcoming Hermeus Darkhorse demonstrates the flexibility exhibited by Hermeus Aerospace with respect to using existing supersonic turbofan engines for the gas turbine component of its TBCC engines being developed for hypersonic aircraft designs.
Quote from: Vahe231991 on 07/14/2023 01:27 amblah blah blah....Someone please stop this AI crap
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Quote from: 12345 on 08/10/2023 09:21 amQuote from: Vahe231991 on 07/14/2023 01:27 amblah blah blah....Someone please stop this AI crapAgreed. There have been numerous comments like yours about this poster. I go back and forth if it's AI, a non-English speaker with a bad translator Bablesfish, a young person trying to sound intelligent and/or important and getting their rocks off seeing their posts here and interactions with others, or an elder with time on their hands scouring NSF for old threads to revive as a hobby (and to annoy Jim). I've got them on IGNORE, but will look at their posts once in a while just to see what kind of drivel they posted that day. Once in a while they randomly make a decent post, but otherwise they're just an annoying mosquito. I've seen worse, but NSF could lose them without pain.
The post written by me in question isn't a product of artificial intelligence. I never wrote "blah blah blah" because I am both an English speaker and multilingual speaker. I was just commenting on the latest news on development of the Darkhorse because Hermeus Aerospace had to make a decision on what turbofan should be used for the gas turbine part of the Chimera II TBCC engine for the Darkhorse engine because it knows that the J85 turbojet that is part of the Quaterhorse's powerplant is technologically obsolete compared to the F100.