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.