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The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
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The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
An unpowered military cargo glider designed to deliver troops and equipment behind a tow aircraft.
A compact twin-engine helicopter widely used for medical, police and training work.
A four-engine tactical transport built around a rear loading ramp and access to austere airfields.
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 two-seat powered hang-glider trike with an open cockpit.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A lightweight pusher family with an enclosed cabin and a high, braced wing.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
Japan’s postwar regional turboprop, with Rolls-Royce Dart power and a career spanning passenger, freight and specialist government flying.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
A twin-hull flying boat with its engines mounted together above the wing.
A small two-seat piston helicopter with a two-bladed main rotor.
A two-seat light amphibian with a compact boat hull and a pusher propeller.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A large twin-engine helicopter from the Super Puma line, used for offshore and public-service work.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
Grumman’s small twin-engine amphibian: a flying boat with retractable wheels and a life spanning wartime service, private travel and seaplane training.
A composite touring single with a whole-aircraft parachute and several generations of avionics.
A military liaison aircraft built around a high wing, tandem cabin and short-field utility work.
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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