Ultimate Planes Collector's Set

Meet the aircraft experts who are working on ways to change the way we think about flying in Dean of Invention: Future Flight. Just as the automobile replaced the horse and carriage and fundamentally changed our world, the advent of a new age of aviation could be the catalyst for a new generation of growth in the U.S. Travel to a hidden world where far-fetched ideas become a reality in Secrets of Future Airpower. Particle ray beam weapons, quiet super-sonic flight, magnetic levitation, and hyper-speed are all part of the technology that promises cutting-edge aircrafts for the future. Explore the technology of X-Planes including breaking the sound barrier, early experimentation with the “lifting body” design represented by the X-20 “DynaSoar,” and NASA's X-43 Hyper-X, the forerunner of future hypersonic. Uncover the strange oddities, bizarre ideas and misconceptions used by engineers and designers in Strange Planes.

Contains
Dean of Invention: Future Flight
Secrets of Future
Airpower
The Wall – Breaking the Sound Barrier
Space Planes
The Edge of Space
X Is for Experimental
Strange Shapes
Giants
Eyes in the Sky
Vertical
Parasites
Drones, Midgets, Mutations
Rubber Planes
The Flying Pancakes
The Pushers
Catapults
The Fan Planes
The Hovercraft
The World’s Stran­gest Planes