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The term "canard" arose from the appearance of the Santos-Dumont 14-bis of 1906, which was said to be reminiscent of a duck (canard in French) with its neck stretched out in flight. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Despite the use of a canard surface on the first powered aeroplane, the Wright Flyer of 1903, canard designs were not built in quantity until the ...
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Oblique wing: a single full-span wing pivots about its midpoint, as used on the NASA AD-1, so that one side sweeps back and the other side sweeps forward. Telescoping wing: the outer section of wing telescopes over or within the inner section of wing, varying span, aspect ratio and wing area, as used on the FS-29 TF glider. [28] Detachable wing.
The Grumman X-29 is an American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. Funded by NASA, the United States Air Force and DARPA, the X-29 was developed by Grumman, and the two built were flown by NASA and the United States Air Force. [1]
Campbell Model F 1930 private airplane, 1 built; Hanriot H.110 1933 fighter, 1 built; Stearman-Hammond Y-1 1934 safety airplane about 20 built; de Schelde Scheldemusch 1935 1 seat biplane trainer, 6 built; ITS-8 1936 motorglider monoplane, 2 built; SCAL FB.30 Avion Bassou 1936 2 seat light aircraft, 2 built; Abrams P-1 Explorer 1937, 1 built
The plane was shipped back to California and repaired, and on May 21, she took off again, this time flying east to Miami. Earhart kept both her new direction and date of departure a secret.
Plane wings collide. An already hectic holiday travel day was made more chaotic with two separate plane collisions on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport just hours apart on Monday ...
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