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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
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A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A French two-seat aerobatic trainer with side-by-side seating and a distinctive curved wing outline.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A retractable-gear touring single with an all-metal airframe and a long-lived enthusiast following.
A long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A box-shaped utility twin whose cabin and rear access are central to its design.
A four-seat piston helicopter with a two-blade main rotor and conventional tail rotor.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A tandem-seat development of Scheibe’s touring motorglider family.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A twin-engine utility helicopter with roots in the BK 117 and EC145 families.
The Model 525 CitationJet, the starting point of Cessna's CJ and M2 lineage.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
A heavy-lift helicopter built around an open frame and an external working load.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A full-length double-deck airliner built for very high passenger capacity.
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