Author: Museum of Flying

The SA-100 Starduster was designed by Louis A Stolp and George M Adams as a light sports aircraft for homebuilding from plans. It is a single bay biplane with fabric […]

Rutan VariEZE Burt Rutan began selling the plans to build his VariEze (‘very easy’) during summer 1976. Compared to nearly all other homebuilt designs, the VariEze was easier to build, […]

The Rutan VariViggen is an airplane designed by Burt Rutan. He named it after the Swedish fighter plane, the Saab 37 Viggen, which had partially inspired his design. The aircraft […]

The North American Navion was a civil aircraft designed after WWII marketed to the pilots returning from the war. The Navion was a modern postwar design made to compete with […]

The North American F-86 Sabre (sometimes called the Sabrejet) was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. The Sabre is best known as America’s first swept wing fighter which could counter the […]

The Monnett Monerai is a sailplane that was developed in the United States in the late 1970s for homebuilding. It is a conventional pod-and-boom design with a V-tail and a mid-mounted cantilever wing of […]

The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed Company starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record breaking pilots who were attracted […]

The T-33 was the most widely used jet trainer in the world. A two-seat version of the USAF’s first jet fighter, the F-80 Shooting Star, the T-33 continues to serve […]

Easy Riser The Easy Riser was developed by Larry Mauro from the earlier Kiceniuk Icarus II biplane hang glider. An engine was installed by John Moody in 1975 so the […]

Following WWI intrepid airmen everywhere looked at the globe and considered the possibility of circumnavigating the earth in an airplane. The war had shown them how valuable it could be […]