NASA unveils future aircraft design ideas

Yep the Horton brothers and Northrop were playing around with the fiying wing design way back in the 1940s and 50s what intregue me is the Nethelands flying saucer design could be adapted to a gurond to space use as a replacement for the shuttle.

I wonder how the UFO looking one is suppose to work? did we finally figure out the whole anti gravity thing? The Air Force made a flying saucer or two in the fifties and sixties. I think they ran on ducted fan engines, but I'm not 100%. Anyhow, I know it wasn't anything more exotic than that.

"This futuristic 'flying saucer' design is not only space-age but eco-friendly too, designed by the CleanEra project, led by Etnel Straatsma of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands" I would like them to explain how it works, eco-friendly and all,, and I think thats what we see in the sky nowadays. Here is something about that futuristic flying saucer: http://www.freeenergy.ca/news/118/ARTICLE/1399/2007-07-27.html It is from Free energy site. Here is my thread about free energy. Mostly about Viktor Schauberger. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=197654 Y... [More]

The best shape for a spacecraft ,for a structural design is a sphere. This is an impossible shape for flying in the earth atmosphere. A discus shapeflying saucer is only one shape better if lift has to be obtained by movement through the air. The best clean shape would be a flying wing. Passengers would be seated in the wings,possibly with no windows.The Boeing designs look good to me. For long distance flights high altitude would be the most economic .

i hope they can make a small jet like that and it can fly by remote control like a toy

Can you tell more. Is this somehow connected with Viktor Schauberger? Schauenberger, to the best of my knowledge was not involved in the Horton project. He worked with Messerschmidt on engine cooling systems and Heinkel on contra-prop synchronisation projects. All his later work (post 1941), was done under threat of execution and was closely supervised by the SS in a concentration camp at Augsburg and the mental institution at Mauer-Öhling. As a matter of interest, the SS were the 'governing body' where experimental projects were concerned, such as the warhead and guidance systems on the V2 r... [More]

I've seen concepts of those "flying wing" jetliners before, I think they're the most interesting direction. I've also liked the idea of those Aeroscraft hybrid airships.

Very cool thread L, I loved the pictures! It looks like the future is now.

they should show us the crafts bill uhouse and the ET j-rod were working on at area 51

I wonder how the UFO looking one is suppose to work? did we finally figure out the whole anti gravity thing? It seems as we (or some of us) know how to build antigravity vessels. Roumors says that the technology is used in the B2-bomber. Read the book Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion and you can build one yourself...