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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 compact Japanese twin turboprop with a high wing and pressurised cabin.
A small three-engine demonstrator created to explore technologies for a future supersonic airliner.
A push-pull twin with one engine at each end of the central fuselage.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
An open-cockpit biplane trainer that found a second life in civilian flying.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
The CJ4 belongs to Cessna's light-jet line, with two rear-mounted engines and a T-tail.
A two-seat, twin-engine fighter that served naval and land-based air forces in many roles.
A Hungarian two-seat light helicopter powered by a Rotax 915 iS.
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 pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A long-range twin designed around a new wide-body airframe and extensive composite construction.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
Three fictional aircraft for exploring X-Plane’s atmosphere, terrain and extreme flight regimes.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A streamlined twin-engine helicopter with a Fenestron tail rotor and retractable landing gear.
A four-seat high-wing single that spans generations of conventional instruments and glass cockpits.
A six-seat composite single turboprop with a pressurised cabin and retractable gear.
A five-seat turbine helicopter developed from Robinson's smaller piston-helicopter line.
A four-seat touring family whose Commander 114 added a larger engine and further refinements.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A two-seat light aircraft with folding wings and a choice of nosewheel or tailwheel gear.
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