All About Planes!
All About Planes!
Views: 3 Information The Cassutt Special is a single-seat sport and racing aircraft designed in the United States in 1951 for Formula One air races. Designed by ex-TWA captain Tom Cassutt, it is a mid-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel…
Views: 2 Information The Sonerai is a small, VW-powered homebuilt aircraft, designed by John Monnett. The Sonerai began to compete as a single-seat, mid-wing, tailwheel Formula-V racer class formed in 1972. The Sonerai soon evolved into a two-seat model called…
Views: 1 Information Precious Metal is a custom-built racing aircraft based on the North American P-51 Mustang. Design and developmentPrecious Metal was built by World Jet Inc., a company owned by Don Whittington, in 1988. Its fuselage, acquired from Tallmantz…
Views: 2 Information The Sharp DR 90 Nemesis is a Formula One racing aircraft designed by Jon Sharp and built at the Mojave Airport by the Nemesis Air Racing Team. The aircraft is powered by a modified Continental O-200 piston…
Views: 2 Information The Scaled Composites Pond Racer (Company designation Model 158) was a twin-engine twin-boom aircraft developed for Bob Pond by Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites. Reason for creationBob Pond commissioned the design with the idea of…
Views: 4 Information The Sharp Nemesis NXT with “NXT” standing for “Neoteric experimental Technology,” is a kit-built sport-class aircraft designed specifically for air racing. It serves as a successor to the previous model, the Sharp Nemesis, and was created by…
Views: 2 Information The Wasabi Special is a Formula One racing aircraft. DevelopmentThe Wasabi Special is a single place, low-wing, conventional landing gear-equipped racing aircraft. The airplane was designed and built at the Mojave Air and Spaceport by Elliot Seguin…
Views: 3 Information The TAI Kaan also called TF (“Turkish Fighter”, formerly known as TF-X) and MMU (Milli Muharip Uçak, Turkish for ‘National Combat Aircraft’), is a stealthy, twin-engine, all-weather air superiority fighter in development by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)…