Advanced “For Its Time” Technology

Operation Highjump

Background Operation Highjump, officially known as The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, was a significant United States Navy…

November 6, 2023

Insectothopter, CIA’s UAV from the 1970s

Background The Insectothopter was a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's research and development…

January 14, 2020

Air to Air Supersonic Pilotless Aircraft, Army Air Forces Project MX-800, Progress Report No. 4, March 13, 1947

Background Project MX-800 is a nine month study and research program calling for "investigations in connection with the development of…

August 25, 2017

Project Orion – Nuclear Propulsion Concept

Background Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of…

December 22, 2016

Project Pluto – Nuclear RAMJET Engines

Background Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles.…

July 19, 2016

Autonomous Technology / Robots

Autonomous robots are robots that can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance. Many kinds of robots…

April 27, 2016

Advanced Propulsion Study, February 2004

Advanced Propulsion Study Background This study was tasked with the purpose of conducting a thorough literature and program search to…

April 27, 2016

Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia defines "artificial intelligence" as: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also the…

January 28, 2016

Avrocar

The VZ-9-AV Avrocar (official designation but often listed as VZ-9) was a Canadian VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Aircraft Ltd.…

February 21, 2015

Bell Rocket Jet Pack (Individual Lift Device)

Background In the early 1960s, Bell Aerosystems built a rocket pack which it called the "Bell Rocket Belt" or "man-rocket"…

February 20, 2015