Military / Defense

Ekranoplan

The Lun-class ekranoplan (NATO reporting name Duck) was a ground effect aircraft designed by Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev and used by…

February 21, 2015

Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight

 Download Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight [401 Pages, 5.5MB] By Lawrence R.…

February 21, 2015

NASA’s AD-1 Demonstrator

Introduction The NASA AD-1 was both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982 at…

February 21, 2015

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

Project Isinglass

Project Isinglass was the code name given to two heavily classified, manned reconnaissance aircraft studied by the Central Intelligence Agency…

February 21, 2015

Stealth Technology

Stealth technology also known as LO technology (low observable technology) is a sub-discipline of military electronic countermeasures which covers a…

February 21, 2015

Pulsating Anti-Gravity Suit for Acceleration Protection

Background This document describes a system designed to study the feasibility of augmenting tolerance to acceleration stress using external pressure…

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