On March 2, 2026, Hermeus successfully completed their first flight with the Quarterhorse Mk 2.1, lifting off from Spaceport America in New Mexico and flying over the White Sands Missile Range. From a base station, the team of operators maintained a tight eye on how the systems reacted, how well the plane operated under stress, and so on, basically to see if everything functioned as intended. In terms of size and capability, the new bird is a beast, measuring nearly the same size as an F-16 fighter, weighing four times as much as the previous Mk 1 prototype, and being