From the Wright Brothers' Flyer to the newest generation of unmanned UCAVs, experimental aircraft have "pushed the envelope" of aeronautical possibilities for more than 100 years.  Follow the links below to find models of some of the most historically significant, imaginatively brazen and occasionally downright foolhardy aircraft ever to take to the skies. 

Also included in this section are models of legitimate aircraft projects that, while perhaps never actually test-flown, made it to at least the mockup stage before before their ignominious cancellation.

Convair XF-92A "Dart"  (1948)

X-Planes & Prototypes

1900-1930

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s