Aircraft
USAF Issues Contracts for Supersonic Air Force One
Exosonic and Hermeus have been awarded contracts for faster-than-the-speed-of-sound aircraft by the USAF Presidential and Executive Directorate.
Exosonic and Hermeus have recently won USAF Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate contracts to develop supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, respectively, as potential transports for the President and other top U.S. leaders. Hermeus is working on this Mach 5, 20-passenger aircraft that could shorten the trip from New York to London to 90 minutes. (Photo: Hermeus)
Exosonic and Hermeus have recently won USAF Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate contracts to develop supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, respectively, as potential transports for the President and other top U.S. leaders. Hermeus is working on this Mach 5, 20-passenger aircraft that could shorten the trip from New York to London to 90 minutes. (Photo: Hermeus)

Exosonic and Hermeus—relatively unknown developers of faster-than-the-speed-of-sound passenger aircraft—as well as Boom Supersonic, were recently awarded separate contracts by the U.S. Air Force’s Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate to develop executive transports that could be used as Air Force One. Boom and Exosonic are both working on supersonic airliners, while Hermeus is developing a smaller, 20-seat hypersonic airplane.


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