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A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
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A tandem-seat jet trainer that also found a second life in civilian display and racing.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A high-wing utility turboprop designed for short-field passenger and cargo work.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
A four-engine airliner that brought pressurised-cabin travel into scheduled service.
A modern composite twin with a roomy cabin and two wing-mounted piston engines.
A single-seat aerobatic monoplane that also became a familiar air-racing aircraft.
A two-seat training single with a high wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
A medium commercial helicopter designed for passenger and utility transport.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A slender supersonic trainer with tandem seats and two small afterburning turbojets.
A tandem two-seat sailplane designed for instruction and broader soaring use.
Piper's two-seat trainer with fixed tricycle landing gear.
A light turbine helicopter combining an Alouette II airframe with more powerful Alouette III components.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
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