NASA is working on an UAV to fly above the surface of mars and take high resolution video of the landscape below. The ARES mission will involve a 6.5 meter wingspan UAV that will cruise along 1 mile above the martian surface. The cameras on board are very high resolution, such that, "if there was
And yet another rendition of Texas born Vincent Burnelli’s Lifting Fuselage design. Check out his designs from 1921 to 1964. From the lifting body to the twin boom tail, this is where these designs originated. Compare Burnelli’s last design before his death in '64, a 400 passenger, supersonic airliner, to NASA’s X-43B. A NASA engineer used the word “Remarkable” to describe the similarities.