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When it comes to supersonic airliners, it includes Concord, which is also famous for the etymology of the word Concord effect, which refers to one of the psychological phenomena, I Plane, which is being developed by a Chinese company, and Boom, which aims to travel at low cost. have. Hermeus is the new place to enter the competition for the development of such a supersonic airliner.
Hermeus announced in May that it has completed financing for the development of a passenger plane that can fly at a speed more than five times faster than the speed of sound as a startup to develop a sonic airliner. It is said that the test flight will be conducted in an actual passenger plane within the next five years, and commercial flights will begin 8 to 10 years later.
The name of this airplane, which can travel 7,400 km at a speed of 5,300 km/h or more, has yet to be determined. However, if practical, the route between New York and Paris, which now takes more than 7 and a half hours, can be reached in 90 minutes, which is about a fifth.
Hermes said it could be realized with existing materials and technologies, not with magical new technologies. The aircraft will use titanium and the engine will be equipped with a combined cycle engine with a gas turbine engine as the main axis.
The civilian supersonic airliner itself is not new. Despite excessive fuel economy and only 102 flights, the former Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-144, which killed 113 people and crashed, left Concord, which finished its operation in three years.
In the midst of this, the concept of a supersonic airliner is reviving. Two factors can be considered. First, with the emergence of private space companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin, investors have gained confidence that the aerospace industry can generate long-term profits. The other is that with the maturity of the technology, it is possible to design the aircraft with a material such as titanium, which was difficult to process.
Hermes is attracting attention as well as her brilliant human resources. The four major founders are from Generation Orbit, which has a track record of launching commercial rockets, and are listed as advisors, including former Blue Origin President Rob Myerson and Lockheed Martin, former senior vice president of Top Secret Development, Rob Wise. They are showing confidence that Hermes will change the game of the supersonic industry as the best members in the field of New Space gather. Related information can be found here .
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