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This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name(s), country and other data, with the known years of operation in parentheses. The ICAO names are listed in bold. Having an ICAO name does not mean that a ...
This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers name(s), country and other data, with the known years of operation in parentheses. The ICAO names are listed in bold. Having an ICAO name does not mean that a ...
A 93 m long Concorde answer, canceled in 1971 Lockheed CL-1201: 1960s: 6318.61 tons Nuclear-powered, 1,120 feet (340 m) wing span, airborne aircraft carrier: Boeing RC-1: 1970s: 1584.57 tons "flying pipeline", proposed before the 1973 oil crisis: Conroy Virtus: 1974: 379.90 tons 140 m wingspan, to carry Space Shuttle parts Beriev Be-2500: 1980s ...
This is a list of aircraft manufacturers sorted alphabetically by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)/common name. It contains the ICAO/common name, manufacturers names, country and other data, with the known years of operation in parentheses. The ICAO names are listed in bold. Having an ICAO name does not mean that a manufacturer ...
The RS1 launch vehicle first flew on Jan 10, 2023. The launch ended in failure. [78] — X-64 Invocon Inc. AFRL — Modular aerospike engine launch vehicle testbed [77] X-65 CRANE: Aurora Flight Sciences: DARPA 2025 Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors [79] X-66: Boeing: NASA 2028 Transonic Truss-Braced Wing [80]
A fixed-wing aircraft may have more than one wing plane, stacked one above another: Biplane: two wing planes of similar size, stacked one above the other. The biplane is inherently lighter and stronger than a monoplane and was the most common configuration until the 1930s. The very first Wright Flyer I was a biplane.
A model of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft in a wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center. By early 2019, following extensive wind tunnel testing at NASA Ames Research Center, an optimized truss and more sweep for the 170 ft (52 m) span wing allowed flying higher and faster, up from Mach 0.70–0.75 to Mach 0.80 like current jetliners. [3]
This article lists aircraft manufacturers by the name that ICAO recognises them by. The list also contains the aircraft manufacturers full name and the name of the country they operate from. The first item on the list is 3XTRIM and the last is ZLIN.