Explore: Aircraft Configuration Materials

a tractor configuration is a propeller-driven fixed-wing aircraft with its engine mounted with the propeller in front, so that the aircraft is "pulled"

more conventional tractor configuration, which places them in front. Though the term is most commonly applied to aircraft, its most ubiquitous propeller

tailless configuration has been the tailless delta, especially for combat aircraft, though the Concorde airliner is also a delta configuration. NASA has

Mistel ("mistletoe"), the larger unmanned component of a composite aircraft configuration developed in Germany during the later stages of World War II, in

drag. Minimizing weight can be achieved through the airframe's configuration, materials science and construction methods. To obtain a longer range, a larger

Configuration management (CM) is a management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical

Cessna aircraft to turbine-engined configuration with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops. Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers

also certified by the FAI. An early aircraft design that brought together the modern monoplane tractor configuration was the Blériot VIII design of 1908

technology and materials which would later be used on Boeing's X-45 unmanned combat air vehicle. As an internal project, this aircraft was not given an

Bleriot VIII design of 1908 was an early aircraft design that had the modern monoplane tractor configuration. It had movable tail surfaces controlling