Colibri
Explore the Colibri, an ultralight single-seat canard aircraft designed by Quinto Beltrame in Italy. An innovative design aiming for simplicity, its ultimate fate remains shrouded in mystery.
Sports biplanes and light aircraft of the 1920s and 30s that popularized civil flight.
Explore the Colibri, an ultralight single-seat canard aircraft designed by Quinto Beltrame in Italy. An innovative design aiming for simplicity, its ultimate fate remains shrouded in mystery.
Explore the unique story of Samuel Franklin Cody’s Cody No.4 Monoplane, its design, and its unexpected demise after a collision with a cow at the 1912 military trials.
Explore the Comper CLA.7 Swift, an innovative British monoplane from the 1930s. Learn about its design, engine variations, and surprising roles during wartime.
Discover the Clement-Bayard Monoplan, an early French aircraft by Adolphe Clément-Bayard. From civil innovation to military use, explore its pioneering role.
Discover the Cordner No.1, the pioneering 1909 aircraft built by Irish engineer Joseph Cordner. A single-seater, JAP-powered marvel tested in Northern Ireland.
Explore the Berliner CM-4, the innovative 1928 parasol-wing aircraft. Learn about its design, certification as the first parasol with ATC, and variants produced.
Discover Samuel Franklin Cody’s British Army Aeroplane No.1, the pioneer aircraft that achieved the first powered flight in the UK on October 16, 1908.
Uncover the CLA.4, Nicholas Comper’s 1925 biplane for the Cranwell Light Airplane Club. Explore its design, engines, limited production, and final fate.
Explore the elusive Clément Triplane, a French design from 1919. Initially powered, later transformed into a glider that definitively flew.
Explore the pioneering Cody No.5 biplane by Samuel Franklin Cody. After a peculiar mishap, it triumphed in the 1912 British military trials.
