<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4">My flight to the Philippines took 18 hours! Lol But such a long duration can help a person to prepare psychologically for a major life change...</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4">"Last week, NASA released a <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/08/06/nasa-timelapse-shows-x-59-supersonic-jet-being-built-over-two-years/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">timelapse video</a> showing construction of a supersonic jet called the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/X59/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology</a> (QueSST or “son of Concorde” for short). The experimental aircraft is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without producing the telltale sonic booms that were part of what led to the Concorde being <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-concorde-makes-its-final-flight" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">retired</a> back in 2003.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4">Now there’s an even faster plane under development. Atlanta-based aerospace startup <a href="https://www.hermeus.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">Hermeus</a> just <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hermeus-fully-funded-to-flight-with-60-million-us-air-force-partnership-301349397.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">announced</a> a $60 million contract with the US Air Force to flight test the company’s Quarterhorse, a hypersonic aircraft that can fly at Mach 5 speeds. That’s over 3,000 miles per hour, a speed that could deliver passengers from the eastern US to western Europe in 90 minutes."</font></p><div><font size="4"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/08/11/flight-testing-will-soon-start-on-the-worlds-fastest-reusable-aircraft/">https://singularityhub.com/2021/08/11/flight-testing-will-soon-start-on-the-worlds-fastest-reusable-aircraft/</a></font><br></div></div>