Boeing-Stearman Model 75 ↗
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
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An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
The four-engine wide-body whose raised flight deck created one of aviation's most recognisable profiles.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A huge wooden flying-boat prototype that made one brief flight in 1947.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A cabin biplane with the lower wing placed ahead of the upper one.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A small observation-helicopter family with a rounded cabin and compact rotor system.
The Huey: a turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and an unmistakable two-bladed rotor.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A 1920s flying boat with two engines arranged in tandem above the wing.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A twin-radial airliner that helped make practical passenger transport a regular business.
A large twin-radial transport that carried heavy loads through wartime and post-war freight service.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A light tandem-seat taildragger built around the familiar braced high-wing layout.
A midsize business jet developed by Bombardier’s Learjet division.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
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