{"id":170253,"date":"2023-08-23T03:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-york-to-paris-in-90-minutes-can-this-startup-make-it-happen"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:26:35","slug":"new-york-to-paris-in-90-minutes-can-this-startup-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-york-to-paris-in-90-minutes-can-this-startup-make-it-happen","title":{"rendered":"New York To Paris In 90 Minutes. Can This Startup Make It Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-to-paris-in-90-minutes-can-this-startup-make-it-happen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hermeus\u2019 audacious plan to build a passenger plane able to travel at Mach 5 is a longshot, but it\u2019s won Pentagon backing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a curved aluminum skeleton 40 feet long sat waiting in Hermeus\u2019 cavernous Atlanta factory. It was the prototype of a drone called Quarterhorse. It will never fly. Instead, it\u2019s scheduled for ground-testing starting in September. Hermeus CEO AJ Piplica and his cofounders believe it\u2019s the first step on a long road to an audacious goal: building a plane capable of carrying 20 passengers at hypersonic speed \u2014 five times faster than sound, or 3,850 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine New York to Paris in 90 minutes. Quite an upgrade from the seven-and-a-half hours of a\u2026 More.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermeus\u2019 audacious plan to build a passenger plane able to travel at Mach 5 is a longshot, but it\u2019s won Pentagon backing. Earlier this month, a curved aluminum skeleton 40 feet long sat waiting in Hermeus\u2019 cavernous Atlanta factory. It was the prototype of a drone called Quarterhorse. It will never fly. Instead, it\u2019s scheduled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170253","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}