Aircraft encyclopedia

Aircraft models with their history, specifications and variants.

Airliner · 1933
Boeing 247
First flown on February 8, 1933, the Boeing 247 is regarded as the first modern airliner: an all-metal monoplane with retractable landing gear, an autopilot and de-icing equipment. Only 75 were built, because its very success drove the…
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Supercarwaar (CC BY SA), vía commons
Ruthann from Western Ireland (CC BY), vía commons
Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (CC BY SA), vía commons
Bomber · 1935
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was an American four-engined heavy bomber designed in the mid-1930s for the United States Army Air Corps. Fast for its size, able to work at high altitude and bristling with defensive guns at the expense of…
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