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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
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A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A light business jet with a swept wing, rear-mounted engines and an integrated flight deck.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
An enclosed-cabin development of the Bell 47, shaped for passenger and executive transport.
Pipistrel's streamlined four-seat composite-aircraft design.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A four-abreast regional-jet family spanning the E170, E175, E190 and E195.
A five-seat composite single whose development led to the diesel DA50 RG.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A military transport developed from the DC-3, used for cargo, troops, parachuting and glider towing.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A light two-seat helicopter with a side-by-side cabin and a semi-rigid main rotor.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A long-range trijet developed from the DC-10 with a stretched fuselage and revised wing and cockpit.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
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