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posted by mrpg on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the bip-bip dept.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/hermeus-announces-plan-to-build-the-fastest-aircraft-in-the-world/

A new aerospace company has entered the race to provide supersonic commercial air travel. On Monday, a US-based company named Hermeus announced plans to develop an aircraft that will travel at speeds of up to Mach 5. Such an aircraft would cut travel time from New York to Paris from more than 7 hours to 1.5 hours.

Hermeus said it has raised an initial round of funding led by Khosla Ventures, but it declined to specify the amount. This funding will allow Hermeus to develop a propulsion demonstrator and other initial technologies needed to make its supersonic aircraft a reality, Skyler Shuford, the company's chief operating officer, told Ars.

The announcement follows three years after another company, Boom Supersonic, declared its own intentions to develop faster-than-sound aircraft. As of January 2019, Boom had raised more than $140 million toward development of its Overture airliner, envisioned to travel at Mach 2.2, which is about 10 percent faster than the Concorde traveled.

Officials with Boom Supersonic have said its planes could be ready for commercial service in the mid-2020s, and they added that Virgin Group and Japan Airlines have preordered a combined 30 airplanes.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 14 2019, @12:00PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday May 14 2019, @12:00PM (#843367)

    A family of 4 or less will produce less CO2 flying than driving to destination. That is just by the numbers.

    That's just fuel consumption. Methane production as a by-product of eating road-food is also significantly higher on a cross-country car trip.

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