A company in Saratov making a novel transport airplane with no tail, called the "flying saucer," never got off the ground.
In 1933 Colombia acquired its first presidential transport airplane, a Junkers Ju 52/3m, one of the most advanced aircraft of that time.
Historically, transport airplanes have generally been specifically designed to haul either cargo, passengers, or outsize cargo.
A reduction of one drag count on a subsonic civil transport airplane means about 200 lbs more in payload.
Several types of transport airplanes have been armed with sideways firing weapons as gunships for ground attack.
For commercial transport airplanes, from -1 to +2.5 (or up to +3.8 depending on design takeoff weight)
Prior to 1996, approximately 6,000 large commercial transport airplanes were type-certificated to fly up to 45,000 ft without being required to meet high-altitude special conditions.
But the Caribou is ace transport airplane, and the Army isn't supposed to have transport airplanes.
The siblings escape from the facility via the transport airplane Chris used to get there.
The modification PS-90A-76 is instaled on Ilyushin Il-76 military and commercial transport airplanes.