The Ente (German: duck) was the world’s first rocket-powered full-size aircraft. It was designed by Alexander Lippisch as a sailplane and first flown under power on June 11 1928 piloted […]
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Heinkel He 176
The Heinkel He 176 was a German rocket-powered aircraft. It was the world’s first aircraft to be propelled solely by a liquid-fuelled rocket making its first powered flight on 20 […]
Avia S-199
The Avia S-199 was a propeller-driven fighter aircraft built after World War II by the two aircraft factories in Czechoslovakia: one of them officially called závod Avia (Avia Plant) (1946–48) […]
Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk
The Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk is a twin-engined jet aircraft used by the United States Air Force for advanced pilot training. T-1A students go on to fly airlift and tanker aircraft. […]
Beechcraft T-6 Texan II
The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engined turboprop aircraft built by the Raytheon Aircraft Company (which became Hawker Beechcraft and is now Beechcraft Corporation). Based on the Pilatus PC-9 […]
SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired […]
Antonov An-225 Mriya
The Antonov An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-225 Мрія Dream NATO reporting name: Cossack) is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft that was designed by the Soviet Union’s Antonov Design Bureau in […]
800 Series Shinkansen
The 800 series (800系) is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train type operated by JR Kyushu on the Kyushu Shinkansen high-speed rail line. Built by Hitachi the trains were introduced on […]
Cessna 170
The Cessna 170 is a light single-engined general aviation aircraft produced by the Cessna Aircraft Company between 1948 and 1956.
Flight (military unit)
A flight is a military unit in an air force naval air service or army air corps. It usually comprises three to six aircraft with their aircrews and ground staff; […]