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  2. Big Jet TV - Wikipedia

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    Big Jet TV is a British YouTube channel that records and livestreams aeroplanes landing at major airports. [2] It made international headlines in 2022 during Storm Eunice, as the channel livestreamed planes landing at London's Heathrow Airport in very high winds. [3] The BBC carried a report titled "Big Jet TV turns plane-watching into a ...

  3. List of commercial jet airliners - Wikipedia

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    The following is the list of purpose-built passenger jet airliners. It excludes turboprop and reciprocating engine powered airliners. It also excludes business jets and aircraft designed primarily for the transportation of air cargo.

  4. Custer CCW-5 - Wikipedia

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    The Custer CCW-5 was a twin-engined, 5-seat aircraft of pusher configuration, which used a channel wing claimed to enable low speed flight and short take-offs. Two CCW-5s flew, eleven years apart, but the type never entered production. The aircraft was the third and last of a series of Custer Channel Wing designs.

  5. Willard Ray Custer - Wikipedia

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    Willard Ray Custer (June 6, 1899, Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania – December 25, 1985, Hagerstown, Maryland) was an American engineer and aircraft visionary, inventor of the channel wing concept. [ 1 ] Custer left school at age 13, working as a blacksmith and, later, an engineer and mechanic.

  6. MacCready Gossamer Albatross - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft was designed and built by a team led by Paul B. MacCready, a noted American aeronautics engineer, designer, and world soaring champion. Gossamer Albatross was his second human-powered aircraft, the first being the Gossamer Condor, which had won the first Kremer prize on August 23, 1977, by completing a 1-mile (1.6 km)-long figure-eight course.

  7. Avro Canada C102 Jetliner - Wikipedia

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    The Avro Canada C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range turbojet-powered jet airliner built by Avro Canada in 1949. It was beaten to the air by only 13 days by the de Havilland Comet, thereby becoming the second purpose-built jet airliner in the world, while both were preceded by the Nene Lancastrian, and the Nene Viking, both of which were conversions of piston engine airliners.

  8. Custer Channel Wing - Wikipedia

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    The prototype Custer CCW-1 single-seat test aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum facility at Silver Hill, Maryland in April 1982 Channel Wing concept testing at Langley The first aircraft to incorporate Custer's concept was the CCW-1 which was fitted with a single-seat and was powered by two 75 horsepower (56 kW) Lycoming O ...

  9. List of Beechcraft models - Wikipedia

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    Twin piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 89 Queen Airliner: N/A 0 Unbuilt twin piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 90 King Air: 1964 2,178 [3] Twin turboprop engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 95 Travel Air: 1956 720 Twin piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 99 ...