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.
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.
Californian design frim Garrow Aircraft has taken the wraps off its Verticopter concept for a short/vertical take-off and landing aircraft that has a tilting coaxial propeller on the centre of gravity. For more details visit www.verticopter.com. Garrow has so far flown a small radio-control model.
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...
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
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.
Thales-produced animation of the UK Royal Navy's new CVF aircraft carriers, to be called HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. They are to be built by BAE Systems and VT Group and launched in 2014 and 2016. They will carry the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Merlin helicopter.
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
Second tethered hover by the DP-1C subscale prototype of duPont Aerospace's DP-2 vectored-thrust vertical take-off aircraft - Ej Cajon, California, 30 September 2007
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