These are conceptual design layout drawings, sketches, and model photos of examples of the earliest stages of aircraft design. Most of these were never built – we typically design hundreds of aircraft concepts at the “conceptual” level for every one that ever actually flies. Thanks to Lockheed, Rockwell, AIAA, and others for making these available. More will be added regularly. There are a lot of new drawings, and the drawings previously on this website have been processed and cleaned up. Some are still rather poor, but these are the best available at this time.
Additional contributions are greatly desired, especially 3-view drawings of unusual designs. Please email scans to Aircraft Design Research LLC or email for a shipping address to send paper copies to be scanned here.
Big Company Designs
- Lockheed Dark Star UAV 3-view
- Lockheed Dark Star UAV painting
- Lockheed L-2000 Supersonic Transport (SST).jpg
- Early Lockheed F-22 Design Concept
- Lockheed Lift-Fan STOVL Fighter Design (~1988)
- Lockheed Lift-Fan STOVL Fighter Design Computer Graphic Painting
- Lockheed Reverse Installation Vectored Engine Thrust (RIVET)
- Lockheed RIVET STOVL Concept Illustration (~1988)
- Lockheed Have Blue (F-117 technology demonstrator)
- Lockheed High Speed ATF Concept – 1985
- Lockheed High Speed – recent rendering by L. Bradshaw
- Lockheed direct-lift Navy VSTOL concept (1970’s)
- Lockheed P-38 design patent
- Lockheed Flying Wing Transport concept (1938)
- Boeing JSF X-32 concept
- Boeing JSF X-32 painting
- Boeing Blended Wing Transport 3-view
- Boeing Blended Wing Transport concept
- Boeing High Speed Concept
- Rockwell X-31 Supermaneuver Demonstrator
- Initial Rockwell ATF Baseline (F-22 Program) (D. Raymer ~1981)
- Amazing animation of Raymer’s ATF design (by Alfredo Ramirez P.)
- Initial Rockwell ATF Baseline 3-view (hi-res) (D. Raymer ~1981)
- Rockwell ATF Concept Painting
- Rockwell ATF Paris Airshow Display Model
- Revised Rockwell ATF Concept 3-view
- Rockwell pre-ATF Strike Fighter (like a supersonic F-117)
- Rockwell Delta Spanloader Flying Wing Bomber (D. Raymer ~1977)
- Rockwell Delta Spanloader Flying Wing Bomber Painting
- Delta Spanloader Wind Tunnel Model (painted for display)
- Rockwell Low-Cost Bomber Concept (~1977)
- Rockwell Aerospace Plane (Harry Scott)
- Rockwell Early Shuttle Baseline – tip fins
- North American Rockwell “Nova” T-46 Contender Painting (~1980)
- Rockwell VTX (T-45 contender)
- Rockwell VTX painting
- Rockwell HiMat Fighter Technology Unmanned Flying Testbed (~1978)
- HiMat Modularity concepts (never used – too bad!)
- Rockwell VFMX strike fighter (A-6 replacement study~1985)
- XFV-12A Ejector Wing VTOL Fighter (built but could not fly!)
- North American Rockwell FX (F-15 Program) Contender -Inboard Arrangement (~1970)
- North American Rockwell FX full-scale mockup
- NAA X-15 3-view
- North American Aviation B-70 3-view
- North American Aviation Navion
- McDonnell Lift-Plus-Lift-Cruise JSF concept
- Douglas A-4 original sketch
- Northrop Tacit Blue stealth demonstrator
- Canard MiG Article 1-44(1-42) 3-view drawing
- Forward-Sweep Sukhoi
- Russian Mig-AT Trainer
- Russian YAK-130 Trainer
Other & Misc Designs
- Hyper-X unmanned hypersonic research vehicle 3-view
- Orbital Sciences Pegasus 3-view
- Rutan Boomerang (original CAD design 3-view)
- One-man Flying Wing design by Wolf Scheuermann, Hamburg, Germany
- Rutan Varieze (original 3-view from builder’s manual)
- Cal State University Northridge MarsPlane 3-view
- CSUN MarsPlane Test Photos
- Bugatti pre-war raceplane
- Horten flying wing transport concpet
- RAND Notional Next-Generation Fighter (NGAF) Concept
- Concept Sketch: RAND NGAF
- Pioneer Rocketplane “Pathfinder” 3-view
- Pioneer Rocketplane (earlier version)
- Pioneer Rocketplane Artist’s concepts
- Pioneer Rocketplane CAD inboard view
- Blackhorse Rocketplane (USAF contracted study~1995)
- Blackhorse – painting
- V-2 Rocket Inboard Arrangement
- German Rotor-Jet VTOL fighter concept (1940’s)
Dan Raymer Designs (his own designs or as design manager)
- DR-1 Aerobatic Homebuilt design by D. Raymer (3-view)
- DR-3 Lightweight Supercruise Fighter design by D. Raymer (3-view)
- DR-3 CAD rendering by Lance Bradshaw
- Asymmetric GA Twin by D. Raymer
- Original RI-ATF Sketch by D. Raymer
- Initial Rockwell ATF Baseline (F-22 Program) (D. Raymer ~1981)
- Initial Rockwell ATF Baseline 3-view (hi-res) (D. Raymer ~1981)
- Amazing animation of Raymer’s ATF design (by Alfredo Ramirez P.)
- Rockwell ATF Concept Painting
- Rockwell ATF Paris Airshow Display Model
- Revised Rockwell ATF Concept 3-view
- Rockwell VTX (T-45 contender)
- Rockwell VTX painting (co-designed with Jim Berry)
- Rockwell Delta Spanloader Flying Wing Bomber (D. Raymer ~1977)
- Rockwell Delta Spanloader Flying Wing Bomber Painting
- Rockwell Low-Cost Bomber Concept (~1977)
- Lockheed Reverse Installation Vectored Engine Thrust (RIVET)
- Lockheed RIVET STOVL Concept Illustration (~1988, layout by Yale Keifer)
- Lockheed Lift-Fan STOVL Fighter Design (~1988, layout by Mark Norris)
- Lockheed Lift-Fan STOVL Fighter Design Computer Graphic Painting
- RAND Notional Next-Generation Fighter (NGAF) Concept 3-view
- Concept Sketch: RAND NGAF
- RAND Notional Medium Bomber Concept 3-view (1993)
- Pioneer Rocketplane “Pathfinder” 3-view
- Pioneer Rocketplane (earlier version)
- Pioneer Rocketplane Artist’s concepts
- Pioneer Rocketplane CAD inboard view
- Blackhorse Rocketplane (USAF contracted study~1995)
- Blackhorse – painting
- CSUN MarsPlane 3-view (Raymer taught & led design lab)
- CSUN MarsPlane Test Photos
- Rockwell X-31 (layout by Dave Wright – Raymer headed vehicle design during concept phase)
- Rockwell pre-ATF Strike Fighter (like a supersonic F-117)
