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Todays 'new concept' was designed over 60 years ago

 

Burnelli CB-16
(1927)


 

Burnelli CB-16

Rear view of 16-passenger transport showing fuselage width and pilot's location in nose with clear forward and rearward visibility.

 

Burnelli CB-16

America's First Executive airliner, the Burnelli all-metal CB-16 was the first multi-engine aircraft capable of single engine performance at its design gross weight and the first American multi-engined airplane to employ the use of retractable landing-gear.

 

 

Burnelli CB-16
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