Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” ↗
The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
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The purpose-built Ryan monoplane used by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 solo Atlantic crossing.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A Belgian light helicopter with two seats arranged side by side.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A post-war Czech light twin with a rounded cabin and engines carried on a low wing.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
A heavy transport helicopter whose two large rotors remove the need for a tail rotor.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A post-war Businessliner with a radial engine, cabin transport ambitions and tailwheel gear.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A purpose-built agricultural aircraft that also became a single-engine air tanker.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
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