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An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
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An electric-powered educational glider concept inspired by the human-powered MIT Daedalus 88.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A six-engine heavy transport created for exceptionally large external and internal loads.
A pressurised four-engine piston transport from the last major generation before the jet airliner.
A 1920s transport family that developed from a single-engine airliner into a trimotor.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A pressurised single-engine turboprop family that combines a compact cabin with retractable gear.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A small open gyroplane with an unpowered rotor and pusher propulsion.
A Brazilian light trainer with a high wing, tandem seats and a simple utility layout.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
A short-haul jet family that evolved through several generations of engines, wings and flight decks.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
Beechcraft's Model 76, designed to introduce pilots to twin-engine flying.
A shorter wide-body Airbus from the transition to two-pilot, electronic-instrument cockpits.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
New aircraft, useful sources and improvements to AirframeDB. Occasional updates, when there’s something to share.