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DARPA Experimental Aircraft Program to Develop the Next Generation of Vertical Flight February 25, 2013 Higher speeds, increased efficiency, elegant designs are the focus of new VTOL X-Plane One of the greatest challenges of the past half century for aerodynamics engineers has been how...

Paging Mr. David Mace, Paging Mr. Greg Bear. Via Slashdot: DARPA wants to dot ocean floor with network of robotic pods that can spy, explore (NETWORKWORLD) http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/01/11.aspx...

McDonnell Douglas UpSTAGE Anti-Ballistic Missile (funded by DARPA). Successful external combustion propulsion is quite visible in the last (in-flight) photo. I don't believe the Linear Aerospike engine ever achieved this.

An interesting review of DARPA projects (2 volumes), "Transformation and Transition: DARPA’s Role in Fostering an Emerging Revolution in Military Affairs": http://www.darpa.mil/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2686 http://www.darpa.mil/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2687 Stealth, PGMs, UAVs...

I came across this very interesting article, and other material, at the Quiet Aircraft Association's YO-3A website: http://www.yo-3a.com/ Night Stalkers U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck. By Roger Warner Air & Space Magazine, May 01, 2004...

https://actuv.darpa.mil/ From the site : DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare game goes live April 04, 2011 Can you best an enemy submarine commander so he can’t escape into the ocean depths? If you think you can, you are invited to put yourself into the virtual driver’s seat of one of several...

DARPA to develop microscale navigational gyro for guided munitions and hand-held devices Posted by John Keller ARLINGTON, Va., 29 April 2010. Navigation and guidance experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop a...

http://news.discovery.com/tech/flying-car-pentagon-jetsons.html https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1912b1f953dd005feb5709174213c432&tab=core&_cview=1 DARPA wants basically an SUV that flies. They want it to be able to have a 250 mile range on a tank of gas. Since they didn't...

Hi, Tucked away in Boeing's rotorcraft presentation at Paris was a small image of something called FASTR - Folding Advanced Stopped Tilt Rotor - a study by Bell Boeing for DARPA and the US Navy...

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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...

"Piasecki also had some interesting ideas on rotorcraft unmanned air vehicles for the US Army's Future Combat Systems, including a modern version of its AirGeep, but they were cancelled last year." Yes, the UCAR program was cancelled (UCAR = US Cancelled Another Rotorcraft ), but I think...