twin-boom design built around a central nacelle. Only a handful of other aircraft did, or would, share a similar configuration, including the Dutch Fokker G.I, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow ...

As this collection shows, twin-boom aircraft have been useful at almost everything the more familiar single-tail-boom airplanes do. The ones shown are merely a sample of hundreds of designs.

was one of several volunteers working at night and on weekends on the last aircraft Rutan designed before he retired: a twin-boom, roadable aircraft known as the Bipod. (It’s not uncommon to ...