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1.

Langley Aerodrome: First
heavier-than-air powered aircraft
deemed "capable" of manned
flight (1903).

BLÉRIOT XI

33. Northrop XP-56
Black Bullet: A tailless design-yes, no
horizontal tail (1943).

2.

Blériot XI: Monoplane crossed the
English Channel (1909).

3.

Wright Flyer: Canard biplane
(1903).

4.

Fabre Hydravion: First to take off from water (1910).

5.

Paul Cornu's helicopter: First to use rotor blades
instead of wings (1907).

6.

Taylor Aerocar: Roadable aircraft (1949).

7.

Dornier Do 31: VTOL jet transport aircraft (1967).

8.

McDonnell XF-85 Goblin: Tiny parasite fighter dropped
from bomber aircraft (1948).

9.

Douglas X-3 Stiletto: Designed for Mach 2, achieved 650
mph in level flight (1952).

10. Bartini Beriev VVA-14: Vertical takeoff amphibious aircraft
built to fly in ground effect (1972).
11.

KM "Caspian Sea Monster" ground effect vehicle. Largest,
heaviest aircraft of its time (1966).

12. Stipa-Caproni: Barrel-shaped "intubed-propeller" design
(1932).
SIKORSKY X2

13. Northrop XB-35: Flying wing
bomber design (1946).

15. Snecma Coléoptère: "The beetle"
needed no runway (1959).
16. HZ-1 Aerocycle: One-man "personal" helicopter (1954).
17. Hafner Rotabuggy: A Willys Jeep that flies (1943).
18. Goodyear Inflatoplane: Rubber airplane (1956).
19. Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake": All-wing design, looks like
a flying saucer (1942).
20. Caproni Ca.60: Nine-wing flying boat (1921).
Hiller X-18: Tiltwing and vertical/short takeoff and landing
transport (1959).

PROTEUS

22. Curtiss-Wright VZ-7: Quadrotor "flying truck" (1957).

25. Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose: Fighter with a big nose (1943).
26. Miles M.39B Libellula: Tandem-wing aircraft for landing on
carriers (1943).
27. Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender: Canard fighter with a
rear-mounted engine (1943).
28. Blohm and Voss BV 141: Asymmetrical reconnaissance
aircraft (1938).
29. Grumman X-29: Forward-swept-wing, carbon-fiber jet
aircraft (1984).

NASA Hyper III: Remotely
piloted lifting body aircraft
(1969).

35. Team Airbike: Kitbuilt
ultralight aircraft (1994).
36. Lockheed Martin P-791: Aerostatic hybrid airship
(2006).
37. Nemeth Parasol: A round wing on top of the
fuselage (1934).
38. Santos-Dumont
14-bis: Box
kite-like biplane
(1906).

BOEING 377 PREGNANT GUPPY

39. Boeing 377
Pregnant
Guppy: Outsizecargo freight
aircraft (1962).

41. CAC Boomerang: Combat
aircraft built in
Australia (1942).
42. White Knight
Two: Quadjet
cargo aircraft
used to lift
SpaceShipTwo
(2008).

AIRBUS BELUGA

43. Airbus A300600ST Beluga: Super Transporter carries oversized
cargo (1994).
45. Rutan Voyager: Front and rear propellers powered
by separate engines (1984).

24. H-4 Hercules "Spruce
Goose": Flying boat made of birch wood (1947).

31.

TEAM AIRBIKE

44. Concorde: Supersonic passenger airliner (1969).

23. Mil V-12: Largest helicopter
ever built (1968).

30. McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat:
High-speed, long-range,
high-altitude piston
interceptor (1944).

34. Lockheed XFV
Salmon: Vertical takeoff aircraft nicknamed
the "pogo stick"
(1954).

40. Scaled Composites Proteus: Tandem-wing
high-altitude, long-distance aircraft (1998).

14. Sikorsky X2: 250-knot helicopter
with coaxial rotors (2008).

21.

32. NASA AD-1: Burt Rutan-designed subsonic jet with
oblique wing (1979).

CURTISS-WRIGHT VZ-7

46. Breitling
Orbiter 3: First
nonstop balloon
flight around the
world (1999).
47. Christmas Bullet:
Cantilever wing biplane with no struts
or braces (1919).

NASA HYPER III

48. Blackburn "Roc": Turret-armed fighter aircraft
(1938).
49. McDonnell Douglas X-36 Tailless Fighter: Look, ma,
no tail (1997).
50. Northrop Tacit Blue "The Whale": Stealth
technology demonstrator (1982).

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