Talk:List of experimental aircraft

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[edit] XB not a series

XB- is not a series. The XB-70 was a prototype B- series aircraft, and most (all?) B- series aircraft that actually flew were preceded by an XB- prototype.

I suggest confining this list to pure research machines, like X-planes. --Rlandmann 00:38, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I don't care too much about how things are organized/categorized on this page, though I agree that it would be best to restrict the page somewhat. I tried to lay down some loose restrictions in the opening paragraph, though they can be tweaked... As for the XB-70, I just randomly picked "XB series" as a header. Other terminology is fine. —Mulad 01:09, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

I suggest that since this list appears to be US-centric, US spellings ought to be used. ;Bear 00:03, 2004 Aug 15 (UTC)

[edit] Merge and too US-centric.

The page is nearly identical to the "X-plane" page. It is also a list of US experimental aircraft only.

[edit] Inflatoplane

Goodyear's Inflatoplane is opften refered to as XAO-3 [1] or the latter version of it the XAO-3G1... [2] 200.181.52.9 20:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Series confusion

Regarding US aircraft designations, there is no such thing as the XA, XB, XF, or XP series. These are all part of the A, B, F, and P series respectivley. As such, I have removed the "not used" designations from the lists, as they are misleading, implying that the numbers were not used at all. For example, "XF-86", when in fact there was a "XP-86" that became the F-86 Sabre. This is not an exuastive list of every designation under each series, but rather a list of experimental aricraft that were not part of the official X-series, but were non-the-less notable. - BillCJ 01:02, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] XF-11

Should the Hughes XF-11 be listed here? I am not an airplane buff so I thought I'd ask. It seems like there are a lot missing? --24.147.86.187 18:11, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Out of scope?

Seems to me this page is a narrow def of "experimental", given FAA lists all homebuilts as such.... Trekphiler (talk) 18:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)