late 1990s

I found a reference to this from a Boeing brochure, probably from 1996. I have copies of two pages of it, but don't remember where I found it. It's discussing future product plans, highlighting the planned 757-200X and -300X, the upcoming 767-400X, the ultra-long-range 747-100X, and the...

Reconstruction of Acoustic Collection Missions Against Three Cruise Missiles October 1999 Daniel J. Lowen

While browsing through magazines, I came across this most unusual aircraft, presented at MAKS '99 and described as the Avialine. Does anyone know anything about it? Who manufactured it? Did it actually fly? What became of it? Title edited thanks to boxkite's information.

Source: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/76934486/Hybrid-Catamaran-Air-Cushion-Ship-HCAC http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2003/hcac-flyer_04-11-03.pdf

This is an unusual project, especially in light of known JMSDF doctrine. It was apparently conceived around the mid-'90s or there abouts by the JMSDF and the old JDA as a lower cost alternative to the procurement of futher units of the Kongō class (what would eventually become the Atago class)...

A late 1990's French government sponsored project for a "Ground Target For Simulating The Heat Silhouette Of A Vehicle Such As A Tank". Intended for both peacetime use as a training (including live fire) target and as a wartime mobile decoy system. Was what would be known today as 'optionally...

Sikorsky - Advanced Composite Airframe Program (ACAP) - S-75 crash test at NASA/Langley Research Center, 1999 88 hi-res pics (about 25 Mb TIFF each)

Hi; http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1996/1996%20-%202961.html

Coopership Industries was a company founded in 1996 to design and build (very) large rigid hull airships. The website at www.coopership.com appears to have disappeared in the early 2000s, but included this info on the proposed airship: The attached picture comes from a January 2001 article in...

IL Aerospace Technologies (ILAT) was the sole Israeli entrant to the Ansari X-prize competition. Their initial X-prize entry was the Negev-5 (Negevs 1 through 4 being various planned subscale/prototypes). Like the da Vinci Project entry, the first 'stage' was a balloon that lifted the hybrid...

Artist's impressions from Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), now QinetiQ, of a possible Future Surface Combatant (FSC) frigate dating to 1998. EDIT: Cutaway drawing of Future Surface Combatant removed because of larger image later in this topic. Sources...

Two artist's impressions of the Royal Navy's proposed future aircraft carrier (CVF) from 1999. These both show examples designed to operate STOVL aircraft. Source: http://navy-matters.beedall.com/cvf2.htm

Hi all, (First of all, my apologies if this project has been discussed before) I was browsing through my defence magazine archives and found an article about the following project in a Turkish defence magazine, "Savunma ve Havacilik" (Defence and Aerospace) from 1997. The project is titled as...

The Polish PZA (Przeciwlotniczy Zestaw Artyleryjski) Loara SPAAG system is fairly well known but not so its planned SPAAM companion. The former is usually referred to as Loara-A (or, for export purposes, Loara-G for Gun). The SPAAM was designated PZR (Przeciwlotniczy Zestaw Rakietowy) Loara but...

Possible future variants of the Royal Navy Type 45 ("D" or Daring Class) Destroyer include Type 45 Land Attack variant and Type 45 General Purpose variant.

R/V Calypso II was an oceanographic research and documentary expedition support vessel that was unveiled by Jacques Yves Cousteau shortly before his death. To date, the ship has not been constructed by the Cousteau Soceity/Equipe Cousteau. The Calypso II was aluminum-hulled, monohull...

Hi, here is a strange project for Blackhawk,it can carry a light tank. http://www.geocities.com/air_mech_strike/aircraftphotos.htm

Have found a nice photo of this quite sensitive bird, so have decided to collect bits from the net to post here for a reason. http://www.air-and-space.com/Death%20Valley%20sighting.htm The Air Force operates a modified NT-43A as a Radar Test Bed (RTB) with radar imaging gear on its nose and...

BTW, do you have any more Blue Team DD(X) images (General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works /Lockheed Martin Corporation)?

Found these on www.sinodefenceforum.com http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/military-aviation-air-force/j-xx-fighter-aircraft-47-43.html Attributed to a friend of ours - anything you can tell us Deino? Cheers, Woody