Brazilian born Alberto de Santos Dumont tests in France the controls of his first aircraft with it suspended from his No. 14 airship. Santos Dumont called the airplane…
The Vought V-173, known as the “Flying Pancake”, was an experimental airplane designed by Charles H. Zimmerman during WWII, under the US Navy fighter aircraft program. This plane…
The Flettner airplane, 921-v, a wing rotor airplane designed and built n 1930 by Anton Flettner, in the USA. This airplane, with an unique design based on the…
The Baldwin airship at Hammondsport, New York, in 1907. Thomas Scott Baldwin, second from left, became the first American to descend from a balloon by parachute, in 1887.
Traveling backwards The concorde was so fast that it was possible to fly around the world and against the clock. In the end of the last millennium, Air…