Alberto Santos-Dumont · Pioneer experimental aircraft
HISTORICAL FIELD NOTE
Santos-Dumont’s box-kite canard made one of Europe’s first publicly witnessed powered flights, helping establish practical heavier-than-air aviation. Taking off under its own power before an assembled audience, the 14-bis helped make powered flight a visible public achievement rather than a claim supported mainly by private demonstrations.
INTERACTIVE MODEL LOADS WHEN NEARBY
2016 / ModernAirframe B
F-35A Lightning II
Lockheed Martin · Conventional multirole fighter
HISTORICAL FIELD NOTE
The conventional-runway F-35A combines low-observable shaping, sensor fusion, and internal weapons carriage with the lightest airframe and largest internal fuel load of the three F-35 variants. It entered U.S. Air Force operational service in 2016 and is designed for both air-to-air and precision-strike missions.
PERFORMANCE
SPECIFICATION BREAKDOWN
METRICSantos-Dumont 14-bisF-35A Lightning II
Top speed
25 mphREFERENCE VALUE
Mach 1.6REFERENCE VALUE
Ceiling
20 ftREFERENCE VALUE
50,000 ftREFERENCE VALUE
Range
722 ftREFERENCE VALUE
1,200+ nmiAPPROXIMATE / PUBLISHED
Archive milestone
Public flight · 1906REFERENCE VALUE
Service entry · 2016REFERENCE VALUE
Nation
France / BrazilDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
United StatesDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
Primary role
Pioneer experimental aircraftDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
Conventional multirole fighterDESCRIPTIVE VALUE
Values are concise archive references and can vary by variant, payload, configuration, altitude, operating conditions, and source. Range may describe different published measures where a directly comparable figure is unavailable.
