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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 long-range fighter whose different engine and canopy developments produced several distinct forms.
A long-running touring single, familiar in both V-tail and conventional-tail forms.
A radial-engined light transport whose long career covered passengers, freight and military training.
An enclosed gyroplane represented in VSKYLABS’ X-Plane fleet.
A corrugated-metal transport best known in its three-engine form.
An enclosed, two-seat autogyro with side-by-side seating and a pusher propeller.
A late-war single-seat jet fighter with its engine mounted above the fuselage.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A Swedish reconnaissance and dive-bombing aircraft from the early 1940s.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A regional jet family with four small engines, a high wing and a large split tail airbrake.
An experimental twin-boom racing aircraft commissioned by Bob Pond and designed by Burt Rutan.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
Lockheed's tandem-seat Shooting Star jet trainer.
A pioneering all-metal transport with an enclosed passenger cabin and corrugated skin.
An open, single-seat ultralight with its propeller behind the pilot.
A pressurised single turboprop with a large cargo door and a broad range of working roles.
The JetRanger and LongRanger family: a familiar turbine-helicopter shape with distinct cabin lengths.
A swept-wing business jet designed around high subsonic cruise speed.
A compact Italian light twin with a shoulder wing and metal airframe.
A four-engine Airbus wide-body developed in parallel with the A330.
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