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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 close-air-support aircraft with a straight wing, twin tail and two widely separated jet engines.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A high-wing utility aircraft known for short-field work and a broad choice of working configurations.
An all-metal sport and touring aircraft from Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A hybrid-electric regional-airliner concept represented in the simulator while the real programme develops.
A fixed-gear twin turboprop with a long history in regional and remote-area transport.
A long-range strategic bomber with a swept wing and eight jet engines in paired pods.
A pressurised touring twin whose piston and turbine-conversion versions make a particularly interesting comparison.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A Canadian tandem-seat trainer developed after the Second World War.
A very large single-engine biplane designed for practical work from modest airfields.
A compact Czech touring aircraft with side-by-side seats and a streamlined low-wing airframe.
A turbine-powered utility helicopter with a broad cabin and a long international service history.
A twin-radial military transport with a rear ramp and short-field design priorities.
The second-generation Harrier, designed around vectored thrust and short-field operation.
A twin-engine business jet designed to retain some of the utility flexibility associated with the PC-12.
A two-seat Tecnam high-wing aircraft combining composite and metal construction.
A corrugated-metal, three-engine transport from the formative years of airline travel.
A pressurised twin turboprop with a canard, composite airframe and rear-facing propellers.
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