Northrop grumman marketing video for the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar under development for retrofit into F-16s and offered for installation on other aircraft.
Aeros video animation showing the design it developed under DARPA's Walrus programme for an ultra-large cargo-carrying hybrid airship - combining bouyant lift, aerodynamic lift and powered lift to take-off and land vertically without ground infrastructure. The Walrus programme was cancelled before anything was built, but Aeros continues to develop the Aeroscraft
Stanford University video of a small robotic helicopter flying a complex airshow routine autonomously, using a technique called "apprenticeship learning" in which the flight-control software learns the ideal trajectory for an aerobatic maneuver by "watching" an expert radio-control pilot fly the routine several times.
A video by France's LISA Airplanes showcasing its Akoya two-seat ultralight amphibian, which is planned for first deliveries in lkate 2009 (www.lisa-airplanes. com)
This is Cessna's video to launch the Citation Columbus large-cabin business - the biggest Cessna yet - which will fly in 2011. It's almost 5min long, and a bit talky, but there's some nice CGI work.
Lockheed Martin's X-33 was to be a sub-scale suborbital technology demonstrator for a singe-stage-to-orbit resuable spaceplane to be called Venturestar. NASA cancelled the X-33 in 2001 before the demonstrator was complete.
This is a video that ends with a bang. Produced in 2003, it shows flight tests of the CarterCopter high-speed autogyro, which has crashed 8 times in 5 years - and no-one has been hurt! Check out the website - www.cartercopters.co m - for the full story...
Raytheon video showing the test of a bumber-busting weapon concept using a tandem warhead. In the test, the precursor warhead - a massive shaped charge - is exploded to punch through 20ft of extremely hard high-pressure concrete. The warhead succeeded in penetrating to 19.5ft...
Lockheed Martin video of the first flight of the F-35B short take-off and vertical landing variant of the Joint Strike Fighter from the company's Fort Worth, Texas plant on June 11, 2008. Pilot is Graham Tomlinson of BAE Systems
Northrop Grumman promotional video for the RQ-4N Global Hawk, which has won the US Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance competition for an UAV to operate alongside it's Boieng P-8A Poseidon martime patrol aircraft
Swift Engineering is developing the Killer Bee blended wing-body unmanned air vehicle and produced this video animation of the cool-looking UAV on an armed anti-IED mission. Swift also designs and builds racing cars.
