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 ...

Like many Sonex aircraft, the Highwing is intended for operations in both the utility and aerobatic categories. Therefore, its design rests on a cantilever wing and monocoque fuselage.

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, rotating wings, and wings that looked like Venetian blinds. If you could imagine a wing, someone was building it. One idea was to sweep the ...

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 ...

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 ...