2000s

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... OK six years ago right here, I had opportunity to work with some {real} Hollywood types who were helping the Army with future ideas and development of training simulations. Well they were looking for interesting ideas for future Army things and I...

Hi, the Boeing developed an airliner project similar to concept of the Military aircraft,the C-17,Also the company designed a four engined version of Model-777. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/2000/2000%20-%200048.html

Hi, in Sukhoi site I found that project-111,what is it and what is the name of the company ?. http://www.suchoj.com/galerie/index.htm?http://www.suchoj.com/ab1953/KR-860/galerie.shtml

Hi folks, At this year's DSEi Exhibition, BAE Systems had this advanced submarine concept on display - note the fully ducted propulsion (Sorry for the poor image quality - the photos were taken using my phone): Regards, Greg

Should we call it Orionsky... From left to right - basic modification of TKS-based reusable manned spacecraft (ok, TKS on steroids) for Angara-A3 (Angara-5P) (six crew) - long-endurance (up to 30 days) modification of the first one with 3 crew - space station module More information at Vadim...

Hi, The Lockheed boxwing or joined-wing studied for NASA. http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/2001/2001%20-%202624.pdf

Hola!!! I'm interested in information on the evolution of the FCS. These are two models I made from depictions taken out of ARMOR MAGAZINE in 1997. The model is a concept contest winner apparently designed by Dr. Asher Sharoni, from Western Design Howden (WDH) Thanks, Rafa

Another one for the "project cancelled" bin - the Mach 4 aircraft Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites was designing for Space Launch under DARPA's RASCAL (Responsive Access, Small Cargo, Affordable Launch) programme. The aircraft was called the MIPCC Powered Vehicle (MPV) because the four F100...

Can't find much on the site about the FB-22, so I thought I would post these from a couple of years ago. The design has evolved a bit more since then.

Hi, The Russian Federal Space Agency (FSA) is developing the Kliper,a reusable manned spacecraft.

The first X-47B is in final assembly. For info and art, go here: http://www.northropgrumman.com/unmanned/

Hi, And may be the future COIN aircraft will look like that aircraft from Stavatti Machete SM-27 and SM-47.

You see it here first. Ready to fly any day now.

My dears, Do you have a drawings to Agusta/Bell AB-619 19-seat and AB-620 22-seat variants of AB-609 tilt wing aircraft ?.

Just put in new stats software for the forum. For the first day of operation, we had visits from: United States France Slovak Republic Germany United Kingdom Russian Federation Finland Italy Brazil Australia Poland Turkey Portugal Belgium New Zealand Norway Netherlands Sweden Thailand Canada...

Hi, Grob G-600 :was low wing twin turbojet engines HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft) and its crew were 2+2.

Hi interested in any pictures or models of larger versions of kokums Visby class corvette. Orginaly it was developed as the YS-2000 and then enlarged into the current Visby design. A follow on design was considered with Northrop Grumman as a contender to tyhe FCS, but was not selected to be...

This image was was posted by Neptune in the Merchant Shipping thread: This proposal was also depicted in the Thales brocure for an integrated mast, which houses a Smart S Mk2 radar in a "stealthy" enclosure. Here is the link...

"In 1966, the Portsmouth ship-builders, Vosper Ltd., merged with the Southampton-based John I. Thornycroft to form Vosper Thornycroft, a publicly quoted engineering group, with an annual turnover of £250 million and currently employing 4000 staff. The company has a reputation for designing and...

Here is FAS link from 1997: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/cvx-alt/index.html As you can see, the drawings survive but the NAVSEA reports are long offline. Were there any public documents that gave specifications for the design studies?