In order to promote the strength of the first cantilever wing aircraft, Cessna put 28 people on the wings of one of his early models. [Courtesy Kansas Aviation Museum] Full Cantilever Wings.

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 ...

There were box wings, tube wings, cantilever wings ... turn on a dime was such an enormous advantage that some of the best aircraft were notoriously touchy at the stick. The Sopwith Camel ...

Despite the cutting-edge design, the aircraft wasn’t really all that high-tech. According to a report from military aviation analysts at Jane’s, “the sharply swept-back cantilever wing was ...

Boeing Aircraft Co., after a year of secret construction ... The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high-camber cantilever wing. While the Boeing’s fuselage is designed to carry ...

The Puffer—one is held in the collections of the National Air and Space Museum and on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center—was also one of the first aircraft to be built with a cantilever-wing ...

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 us ...

With a gross weight of 1,900 lb (860 kg), the two-seater prop-driven aircraft has a 3.5-hour ... (mainly carbon fiber), has a low-set cantilever wing, bubble canopy, fixed tricycle undercarriage ...