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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 large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A four-engine jetliner that helped establish the shape of long-distance jet travel.
Tecnam's two-seat, low-wing Sierra, introduced in the early 2000s.
A single-engine utility helicopter known as the Écureuil, Squirrel and AStar.
A four-engine military turboprop designed to combine tactical access with long-distance transport.
Dassault's long-range Falcon 8X, developed from the three-engine 7X.
A tailwheel utility aircraft with a high wing and a large cabin loading door.
A tandem-seat autogyro prototype developed around transport and observation roles.
A twin-turboprop utility aircraft developed by Reims Aviation with Cessna.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
Cessna's retractable-gear Centurion, a high-wing touring aircraft.
A tandem-seat utility aircraft whose light structure and high wing suit bush, towing and recreational work.
A two-seat naval fighter with variable-sweep wings and a cockpit built around pilot and radar-intercept officer roles.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
An advanced trainer known around the world as the Texan, Harvard and SNJ.
Ted Smith's piston twin, later produced by Piper as the Aerostar.
A side-by-side touring motorglider used for both powered flying and soaring.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A pressurised cabin-class piston twin, from the tip-tanked 414 to the longer-wing 414A and its many aftermarket conversions.
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