All the configurations described have flown (if only very briefly) on full-size aircraft, except as noted.

Since these models oppose gravity, their linear accelerations at model scale match those of full-size aircraft.

Besides aerial mapping, Dr. Amidi pictures the helicopter's performing dangerous or monotonous tasks now carried out by full-size aircraft.

But Yoeli saw things differently, as any man who builds full-size aircraft in a second-floor apartment would.

But it has not been adopted for full-size aircraft capable of carrying a pilot, passengers or other substantial payloads.

Such scientific experimental work seems to have put paid to the idea that the original KF airfoil will find a simple practical application in the world of full-size aircraft.

The scale notation is the size of the model compared to the real, full-size aircraft called the "prototype".

The system normally fit only on a full-size aircraft, but Jon Masters had redesigned it to fit on board a small, unmanned aircraft.

In 1938, wanting to graduate to full-size aircraft, Johnson read Wolf Hirth's book The Art of Soaring Flight three times.

The museum is also home to two full-size aircraft, including the very airplane in which Neil Armstrong learned to fly.