These guys at Georgia tech connected a brain culture with real cells to a flight simulator and were able to control the roll and pitch of an F22.
Old article but still amazing:
New Scientist article.
YouTube video.
Original video was here: http://www.youtube.com/v/0jeV77dSyMI
Update (6.4.15): This history was quite a life changer for me. Quite cool and amazing job that partially got me into neuroscience. In retrospective not great science but quite catchy, and on the time, an eye opener of how advanced neuroscience was by 2004.
Photo: Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor fighter streaks by the ramp at the 2008 Joint Services Open House (JSOH) airshow at Andrews AFB by Rob Shenk from Great Falls, VA, USA.
