Clyde Cessna started into the aircraft business in Wichita with partners in the Travel Air Company, but soon after struck out on his own again to build Cessna’s full cantilever wing monoplanes ...

The Cessna 170 series encompasses five distinct aircraft models (counting the 172XP) that played significant roles in Cessna's lineup of single-engine, high-wing aircraft. These models are the ...

The Sonex Highwing features a cantilever wing and center section enabling the Lexan polycarbonite windshield to remain a feature. (Sonex Aircraft] With a development timeline stretching back to ...

The rhomboid wing, beside its inherent low drag characteristics, offers the same performances as a classical cantilever wing aircraft of twice its wing span, for a similar total wing area. Furthermore ...

Object Details Pilot Amelia Earhart Manufacturer Lockheed Aircraft Company Physical Description NR7952. High-speed cabin monoplane with cantilever wings and streamlined design. On May 20-21, 1932, ...

What You Need to Know: The B-21 Raider, set to replace many Cold War-era bombers by the end of the decade, continues the U.S. Air Force’s tradition of flying wing aircraft, dating back to World ...

Another small electric airplane took to the skies recently in the form of Bye Aerospace's Sun Flyer 2, which made its maiden flight on April 10. The two-seater prop-driven aircraft has a 3.5-hour ...

The aircraft was all metal and streamlined, but had fixed landing gear and only one engine. Designed by John K. "Jack" Northrop, the Alpha was a great step forward in metal aircraft. Many of its ...

The R2 aircraft started as a challenge to design, fly and operate a UAV with the true rhomboidal wing concept. This turned out to be a rather very demanding and complex design exercise but rewarded… ...

Czech Aircraft Works plans to debut its Parrot LSA all-metal light-sports aircraft at the AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on 25-31 July. The Rotax-powered cantilever-wing two-seater is in ...