With a delta wing, jet engine, fixed gear, wooden structure, and less thrust than a Cessna 172, the bizarre combination of specifications is shared with no other aircraft.

In the 1920s and '30s, what we often term as the Golden Age of Aviation we saw radical transformations in aircraft design. We went from the era of the wooden airplane to the all-metal airplane.

Designed in the early 1950s, the Payen Pa-49 Katy had a delta wing, jet engine, fixed gear, wooden structure, and less thrust ...

Google combined its two LA offices into a historic airplane hangar last year ... The Spruce Goose was the largest wooden plane ever built, due to wartime shortages during World War II.