The Hermeus Podcast

Oct 08 2024 27 ep. 57 mins 28
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Get to know Hermeus and the future of hypersonic aircraft travel. Hermeus is a startup developing hypersonic aircraft to connect the world faster than ever before. At Mach 5, more than twice the speed of the supersonic Concorde, passengers will be able to cross the Atlantic in 90 minutes.

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Hermeus in LA

Oct 08 2024 40 mins  
Our LA office is growing! It’s home to a lot of our hardcore engineering work as well as smaller, highly complex component and subassembly builds. Listen in as Daniel Budenstein, Neel Dutta, Francis Moscal, and Tatum Hardy discuss what it's like to work at our LA office and how it compares to HQ back in Atlanta. 00:00 - 03:10 - Welcome to the LA Office 03:10 - 08:01 - LA offi

Special Guest: Art 'Turbo' Tomassetti

Apr 09 2024 50 mins  
Test pilot Art "Turbo" Tomassetti was one of only a handful of pilots to fly the X-35 – which was of course, the precursor to the F-35. Famously, he flew "Mission X" which consisted of a short takeoff, level supersonic flight, and a vertical landing, which had not been accomplished before in a single flight. Turbo shares this story and more with members of the

Airplanes and Hot Takes

Dec 28 2023 41 mins  
The Hermeus Flight Test team hops on the podcast to judge, drool over, and poke fun at famous aircraft. We've got an Air Force test pilot, a Navy test pilot, and a flight test engineer from the Royal Air Force – their knowledge runs deep and their opinions are strong! PODCAST GUESTS AJ Piplica – Founder, CEO Don "Krash" Kaderbek – VP of Test Pat "Vanna&quo

Special Guests from 'Real Engineering'

Sep 20 2023 48 mins  
Real Engineering is probably our favorite channel on YouTube. They unpack some of the world's most epic engineering challenges with clarity and depth. It was a pleasure to have the channel's creator Brian McManus and his colleague Graham Haerther on the podcast to chat about the art of science communication and the future of YouTube and digital media. And yes, there just mi

The Dream Team Assembles!

Aug 21 2023 44 mins  
From Skunk Works, Blue Origin, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency – our board of advisors create a dream team of aerospace wisdom. In this episode we're joined by members of our Board of Advisors to chat about the Hermeus early days and the progress we've made. Rob Meyerson, Rob Weiss, and Keith Masback were some of Hermeus earliest supporters. They bring to

Defense Tech, Startups, and More with John Coogan

Jul 19 2023 49 mins  
Thrilled to host special guest John Coogan on the podcast. John's working on a video about us and took an hour to hop on the pod to chat about running startups, starting a YouTube Channel, and of course, fast airplanes! 00:04 – President for a day? Bring back the SR-71 01:47 – Technical recruiting in the early days of a startup 02:50 – John's background: Soylent and

Startups 🤝 DoD (Special Guest Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote) – The Hermeus Podcast 19

Jun 20 2023 77 mins  
Lieutenant General Clint Hinote's 35-year career in the Air Force has taken him from inside the cockpit of an F-117 to inside the Pentagon. He has most recently been focused on how to best leverage innovative technology to fortify national security. Freshly retired, we were honored to have him join us for a chat about how startups and the Department of Defense can better work t

Hypersonic Fever! With Chris Combs and Alex Hollings

May 25 2023 76 mins  
Oh do we have a treat for you! We're joined by a couple hypersonic "influencers", Dr. Chris Combs of the University of Texas at San Antonio and Alex Hollings, the Editor in Chief of Sandboxx News, for a thrilling, engaging, and occasionally controversial conversation about the state of hypersonics in the world today. 00:00 - Intros 03:06 - What is hypersonics? What

Hermeus in the Cloud (the AWS cloud that is)

May 12 2023 38 mins  
In this episode of the podcast we bring on a couple all-stars from our Amazon Web Services team to discuss how we approach software development, high performance compute, data storage, and security. Naturally, the conversation gets into some AI and ML speculation and sci-fi movie talk. PODCAST GUESTS: Nandu Shah: VP of Information, Hermeus Jay Naves: Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS Sc

SXSW Special – Atoms vs Bits: Complex Hardware Makes a Comeback

Mar 12 2023 58 mins  
Hypersonics, space, nuclear, carbon capture... Complex hardware is making a comeback and creating an exciting future!  Hermeus Founder and COO Skyler Shuford is joined by Darby Dunn of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries, and space industry expert Lauren Lyons to discuss how hardware companies will change the world by 2050.