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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 DC-10-derived tanker that combined aerial refuelling with passenger and cargo transport.
A European variable-sweep combat-aircraft family with distinct strike and interceptor versions.
A wartime fighter developed from the earlier Curtiss P-36.
The Wilga is the real-aircraft starting point for Mike Patey's DRACO and the simulator's DRACO X.
A long-range twin whose programme emphasised composite construction and more electrically powered systems.
A British jet trainer with tandem seating and a long military training career.
A side-by-side military trainer with a low wing and fixed tricycle landing gear.
A compact utility helicopter distinguished by its enclosed Fenestron tail rotor.
A three-engine airliner that became a mainstay of Soviet and Russian passenger transport.
A single-seat helicopter originally developed as a homebuilt kit.
A Polish utility aircraft designed for short takeoffs and landings.
Piper's PA-31 utility twin, used in commuter, cargo and corporate transport.
A carrier-capable multirole fighter, larger than the earlier Hornet from which it developed.
A large long-haul twin that introduced Boeing's first commercial fly-by-wire airliner flight controls.
A tandem-seat homebuilt jet with composite construction and retractable landing gear.
A two-seat amphibian with a flying-boat hull and a pusher engine above the cabin.
A compact racing aeroplane built around a large radial engine and very short fuselage.
A light turbine helicopter whose land-based Scout and naval Wasp branches served different jobs.
A radial-engined utility aircraft closely associated with bush flying and float operations.
An amphibious turboprop designed around scooping water and delivering it to fires.
A single-engine turboprop workhorse for passenger services, freight and remote-area transport.
A twin-turboprop family whose smaller conventional-tail and larger T-tail branches have distinct identities.
A wooden touring-aircraft family recognisable by the upward-angled outer wing panels.
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