John William Dunne - Dunne Aircraft Designs

Dunne Aircraft Designs

Dunne created the first practical and stable tailless aircraft, which also first used the swept-wing planform.

  • Dunne D.1 (1907, flown as a glider; the powered version was badly damaged on the launch apparatus.)
  • Dunne D.2 (proposed smaller glider version of the Dunne-Huntington biplane, not built.)
  • Dunne-Huntington biplane (design 1906-1907, flying 1910, modified and improved 1913; large canard foreplane leading some to refer to it as a triplane.)
  • Dunne-Capper monoplane (1907, flown as glider; powered in 1911.)
  • Dunne D.3 (1908 glider.)
  • Dunne D.4 (1908, powered biplane using D.1 wings. Achieved short hops.)
  • Dunne D.5 (1910, powered biplane; built by Short Brothers, the alternatively named Short-Dunne 5 was the first tailless aircraft to fly. It flew well but following an accident, was rebuilt in modified form as the D.8.)
  • Dunne D.6 (1911 monoplane.)
  • Dunne D.7, (1911-1912 monoplane. The D.7-bis was a two-seater version of the D.7.)
  • Dunne D.8 (1912, rebuilt and modified D5, following an accident; flew from Eastchurch to Paris in 1913; license built by Nieuport and Burgess.)
  • Dunne D.9 (1913 monoplane; crashed first flight; some sources claim the D.9 was a biplane design and five examples were under construction through 1912-1913.)
  • Dunne D.10 (1912, shorter span version of D.8.)
  • Burgess-Dunne (D.8 and derived variants manufactured under license in U.S; land- and seaplane versions; flew with US and Canadian forces.)

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