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Offline rangerrebew

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Quarterhorse, the Air Force’s Next Hypersonic Aircraft, Has Taken an Epic Leap
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Hypersonic flight (speeds faster than Mach 5) is the perceived future of human aviation.
In order to achieve that vision, engineers need to develop hybrid engines capable of handling subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic speeds.

Aviation company Hermeus successfully demonstrated mode transition between turbojet and ramjet engines for the Air Force’s Quarterhorse hypersonic aircraft, a major hypersonic flight milestone.
 
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The real trick is to have an airframe that can survive Mach 5 and be stable enough at low speeds to land.
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