5th Sep 2022
What’s all the hype about hypersonics?
Summer 2022 saw Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell take to the skies as a test pilot flying the SR-72 ‘Darkstar’. Though the aircraft is a work of fiction, it did raise questions around the validity of hypersonic aircraft. Now, with the UK Aerospace announcing its investment into the Hypersonic Air Vehicle Experimental (HVX), it’s time to ask “What’s all the hype about hypersonics”?