{"id":147895,"date":"2022-10-10T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-mach-5-engine-will-do-what-no-other-can-challengers"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:22:31","slug":"this-mach-5-engine-will-do-what-no-other-can-challengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-mach-5-engine-will-do-what-no-other-can-challengers","title":{"rendered":"This Mach-5 engine will do what no other can | Challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Mach-5 engine will do what no other can | Challengers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9f6d40Ppz3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hermeus is building the world\u2019s fastest commercial aircraft. And we got to tour their hypersonic flight lab.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Challengers playlist \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXthoedLVIdKeeuwpDPSyHSC54obntRxB\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXthoedLVIdKeeuwpDPSyHSC54obntRxB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft startup Hermeus is aiming to do something unprecedented: build an aircraft that can take off from sea level, hit hypersonic speeds, and land to be reused, all while using one jet engine.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve that goal, Hermeus is experimenting with a demonstrator aircraft called Quarterhorse \u2014 a small single-engine autonomous vehicle designed to test the company\u2019s one-of-a-kind engine and briefly hit Mach 5 to collect data.<\/p>\n<p>Freethink asked Hermeus whether early experiments with Quarterhorse are likely to succeed. The answer? No. Failure is still the most likely outcome. \u201cAnd every day that inches a little bit closer to success, a little bit closer and a little bit closer,\u201d said the founder of Hermeus. \u201cAnd there\u2019ll be days when we go the other direction, where we learned something we didn\u2019t know, where we fail in a test, and we take a step back. We just keep moving, keep moving a little bit by bit, until we will this into existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch on <a href=\"http:\/\/Freethink.com\">Freethink.com<\/a> \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/challengers\/commercial-hypersonic-flight.\">https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/challengers\/commercial-hypersonic-flight.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-mach-5-engine-will-do-what-no-other-can-challengers\">Continue reading \u201cThis Mach-5 engine will do what no other can | Challengers\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermeus is building the world\u2019s fastest commercial aircraft. And we got to tour their hypersonic flight lab. Watch the Challengers playlist \u25ba https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLXthoedLVIdKeeuwpDPSyHSC54obntRxB The aircraft startup Hermeus is aiming to do something unprecedented: build an aircraft that can take off from sea level, hit hypersonic speeds, and land to be reused, all while using one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}