Cessna CH-1 Skyhook ↗
Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
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Cessna's unusual piston-powered helicopter, marketed as the Skyhook.
A four-engine airliner whose history also includes long-range maritime military service.
An enlarged Velocity kit aircraft with a canard and rear-mounted pusher propeller.
A DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A compact twin-engine transport helicopter with retractable gear and a long development history.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A pioneering light helicopter whose bubble cabin and exposed structure became widely recognisable.
A regional turboprop family whose short early versions and larger Q400 have different proportions and systems.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A modern open-cockpit light aircraft that revives the corrugated-metal style of the 1929 A50.
A twin-aisle Boeing designed alongside the 757's generation of two-pilot flight decks.
A composite two-seat light sport aircraft with an unobstructed cantilever high wing.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
Mooney's four-seat piston family, developed through many touring-aircraft variants.
A compact aerobatic biplane family with both single-seat and tandem-seat branches.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A modern utility single whose family includes both tailwheel and nosewheel configurations.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A compact rear-engined jet designed for short-haul regional airline work.
A powered hang-glider wing above an amphibious inflatable boat.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
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